Research Technical Manager, AI Driven Cyber Security

Job Description

Job Title:

Research Technical Manager, AI Driven Cyber Security Req  Function:
Product & Propositions Posting

Start Date:

17/07/2026

Posting End Date: 03/08/2026

Division:
Networks

Job Location:

G  Bristol
- Assembly, G  Ipswich
- Orion Building, G
-London-BTHQ One Braham Advertised Salary:
Competitive with great benefits
** Recruiter:
Mark Thomas
**** Hiring Manager:
Zhan Cui
**** Career Grade: D
**** Internal Closing Date: 03/08/2026**##
** About the role
** This role applies the latest AI-driven technologies to make BT's network more secure and resilient against attacks. The position contributes to BT's strategic goal of delivering the best secure network for UK customers by using emerging AI technology and programmable network capabilities to deliver adaptive network embedded security. The role shaper what the future secure network looks like and helps secure both BT and customer networks.

You will have opportunity to actively engage with colleagues to progress new research in important technical topics and supports the realisation of business value from research and innovation outputs.

The role is suited to someone who enjoys cutting-edge research and wants to work on genuinely exploratory problems rather than purely development-led tasks. The successful candidate will work closely with a small research team to turn ideas into practical prototype outputs, while contributing to a broader programme focused on transforming security-related capabilities through innovation.

This role can be based in Ipswich or Bristol or London,  and our hybrid working model means you are expected to be in the office 3 days per week.##
** What you’ll be doing
** In this role you will have the opportunity to work with emerging AI technology and the latest programmable network capabilities. You will have involvement in shaping the future of secure network design and  addition, you will have the ability to publish research and file patents with financial incentives provided by BT.
• Proactive engagement with the relevant business units to downstream strategic technologies for commercial realisation.  
• Domain expert responsible for maintaining expertise in a specific technical domain.  
• Responsible for intellectual property creation, managing patent filing in their domain and supporting IPR exploitation where appropriate  
• Accountable for defining and performing research in network security drawing in inspiration from biological immune systems to deliver high impact and high value across multiple domains.  
• Responsible for authoring thought leadership technical papers, capturing intellectual property   
• Supervision of professionals, graduates and post-graduate student placements and secondments   
• Depending on business needs, may manage Research Specialists, Professionals or other Team members.##
** Essential Skills / Experience
*** Research work experience in cybersecurity
* Experience in attacker malware behaviour modelling
* Demonstrated practical experience in how to apply AI machine learning to address real-world problems
* Working with key stakeholders:
Line of business partners and vendor solutions teams##
** Desirable Skills / Experience**•   
** Technical domain expert:
** Deep technical or domain expertise. They continually develop their expertise in a key technical area so are recognised as a technical expert in cybersecurity, especially, attackers and malware behaviour modelling;  Demonstrated practical experience and substantial expertise in AI/ML applied research;
Experience in software development and project management.  They are also expected to have some knowledge of network architecture and protocols, ability to capture requirements from customer and stakeholders and translate them to tangible solutions to research for outcomes with focus on adaptive network embedded security.•    
** Qualifications**:
Strong academic record in technology specialism with post-graduate qualification(s) (preferably PhD or equivalent research experience).•   
** Expert communicator**:
Regularly presents to peers and managers about their research and area of technical expertise•    
** Experienced in open…