Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Engineer

About the role:

Our mission is simple to summarise: make Singapore’s healthcare ecosystem measurably harder to attack. We are looking for talented and driven people who will work with us on this mission by building the tools, platforms and infrastructure that let us find real weaknesses, build real defences and see them through to fixes that protect patients, hospitals, and the devices they depend on.

Imperial College London and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) are seeking a hands-on Cybersecurity Engineer to join IN-CYPHER (Imperial/NTU CYber Protection for HEalthcaRe). IN-CYPHER is a UK–Singapore research programme on the security of connected medical devices and healthcare systems, based at Imperial Global Singapore (IGS).

What you would be doing:

Connected medical devices often stay in service for 10–20 years, are hard to patch, and sit inside complex hospital networks. Securing them takes more than ideas. It takes working tooling, realistic environments to test against, and demonstrators that convince clinicians, manufacturers and regulators. We want engineers who build these things, automate wherever they can, and turn early-stage research prototypes into robust, usable software that makes a real difference.

We welcome candidates whose engineering strengths lie in any of the following areas:

• Red team tooling: offensive tools, fuzzers, exploitation frameworks, protocol analysers, and automated penetration-testing pipelines.
• Blue team tooling: detection pipelines, network monitoring, intrusion and anomaly detection systems, log and telemetry infrastructure, and automated alerting and incident response.
• Yellow team infrastructure: the environments others attack and defend, such as cyber ranges, hospital-network testbeds, vulnerable-by-design systems, and device emulation and simulation platforms. This also covers the systems underneath them: administering and hardening Linux servers, GPU compute, storage, self-hosted services and mixed-OS systems, and automating their provisioning, patching, access management, backups and monitoring.

Prior medical-domain experience is welcome but not required. You will work closely with researchers and with clinical and engineering partners at Imperial, NTU, the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, and Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.

Candidates will be employed by Imperial Global Singapore, a research division of Imperial College London, which is consistently ranked within the top 10 of the QS University Rankings.

The position is based at the Imperial Global Singapore office located in the CREATE building on the NUS campus. The Cybersecurity Engineer will join a vibrant cross-faculty interdisciplinary research environment currently hosting approximately 30 researchers working across 5 major programmes.

What we are looking for:

• A good relevant undergraduate degree (or equivalent industrial experience), for example in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronic Engineering, or similar.
• A demonstrable track record of building security tooling or infrastructure (red, blue, or yellow team), for example public repositories, released tools, or deployed systems.
• Practical experience in network security, including protocol analysis, traffic capture, and network-level attack or defence.
• Fluency in at least one language used for security tooling and automation, such as Python, Go, C, or Rust, and sound software engineering practice, including version control, testing, CI/CD, and containers.

What we can offer you:

• The opportunity to continue your career at a world-leading institution and be part of our mission to continue science for humanity.
• As a member of staff you will be entitled to leisure facilities within the CREATE building.
• Opportunity to travel to Imperial in London or conferences.
• Generous annual leave entitlement of 21 days plus extra closure days between Christmas and New Year.
• Be part of a diverse, inclusive and collaborative work culture.

Further Information

This role is full time and 1-year fixed term with potential for extension (subject to probation period).

If you require any further details about the role, please contact Viktor Schlegel, Deputy Programme Director, at v.schlegel@imperial.ac.uk.

Questions about the recruitment process should go to HR at Imperial Global Singapore: hrigsingapore@imperial.ac.uk.

About Imperial Global Singapore

Welcome to Imperial Global Singapore, Imperial College London’s formal research and innovation entity in Singapore. Imperial is a global top ten university where scientific imagination leads to world-changing impact.

Imperial Global Singapore is based at the National Research Foundation’s Campus for Research Excellence and Technological Enterprise (CREATE) located on the campus of the National University of Singapore. You will join a vibrant interdisciplinary research environment undertaking research spanning engineering, natural sciences, medicine and business.

Join us and be part of something bigger. From global health to climate change, AI to business leadership, we navigate some of the world’s toughest challenges. Whatever your role, your contribution will have a lasting impact.

As a member of our vibrant community of 22,000 students and 8,000 staff, you’ll collaborate with passionate minds across nine London campuses and four global hubs.

This is your chance to help shape the future. We hope you’ll join us at Imperial Global Singapore.

Our culture

Imperial Global Singapore is committed to Imperial’s equality and diversity frameworks. We work towards equality of opportunity, eliminating discrimination and creating an inclusive working environment. We encourage applications from all backgrounds, communities and industries, and are committed to employing a team that has diverse skills, experiences and abilities. You can read more about our commitment on our webpages

: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/equality/

Our values (https://www.imperial.ac.uk/about/values/) are at the heart of everything we do and everyone in our community is expected to demonstrate respect, collaboration, excellence, integrity and innovation.

All employees are expected to follow Imperial Global Singapore policies and regulations including but not limited to Confidentiality, Health and Safety, Data Protection, the regulations of CREATE Tower and of Singapore.

Imperial Global Singapore observes the San-Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA), which means that in hiring and promotion decisions, we evaluate applicants on the quality of their work, not the journal impact factor where it is published.