Cybersecurity Researcher – Offensive & Defensive Network Security

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Posting End Date

27 Nov 2026

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)

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