Cybersecurity Researcher – Offensive & Defensive Network Security

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 finding real weaknesses, building real defenses 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 Researcher 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. We want someone who knows how these systems are broken and how they are defended, and who can turn that skill into lasting impact through research, vulnerability disclosure, tooling, and work with clinical and industry partners. 

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

• Red team: penetration testing, vulnerability research, and exploit development, with a record of reported CVEs or published exploits/PoCs. 
• Blue team: detection engineering, network monitoring, intrusion and anomaly detection, and incident response, with evidence such as tools, detection pipelines, or deployed infrastructure. 
• Yellow team: building the environments others attack and defend, such as cyber ranges, testbeds, vulnerable-by-design systems, and emulation or simulation infrastructure, with evidence of systems you have built. 

Prior medical-domain experience is welcome but not required. You will work closely 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 Researcher will join a vibrant cross-faculty interdisciplinary research environment currently hosting approximately 30 researchers working across 5 major programmes.  

What we are looking for:

• PhD (or equivalent industrial experience) in computer science, engineering, applied mathematics, or a closely related discipline.
• Practical experience in network security, including protocol analysis, traffic capture, and network-level attack or defence.
• Solid understanding of attack techniques and defensive controls across network, system, and application layers, for example MITRE ATT&CK.
• Knowledge of research methods and of how to evaluate security techniques rigorously.

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 the 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 Foundations 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.