ML Research Engineer
Who are we?
Reliance Cyber is a Google MSSP partner and has been at the forefront of building "AI-enabled, human-in-the-loop" cyber security services on top of Google's advanced SecOps stack and Vertex AI capabilities. We are now accelerating our investment to bring AI and agentic capabilities to all aspects of our service, protect against AI-enabled cyber attacks and deliver enhanced security outcomes for our customers. It is our people that make us exceptional - and we are on the lookout for a ML Research Engineer to join our growing team and help up deliver this transformation in our MDR platform.
What role are we looking to recruit?
We’re looking for an ML Research Engineer to join us, reporting directly to our Head of Research. In this role, you’ll play a pivotal part in building and evolving our agentic Security Operations Centre (SOC), delivering rapid, automated decision-making in response to real-world cybersecurity events. As we’re still early in our journey, you’ll have the rare opportunity to shape the foundations—designing and developing our core evaluation frameworks from the ground up, while continuously monitoring and optimising agent performance. Working closely with the Head of Research, you’ll experiment across the full stack—from system prompts and MCP services to underlying models—with the scope to help scale our architecture into increasingly sophisticated, multi-agent systems as our platform and data evolve.
What you’ll bring
We’re looking for a curious, self-driven ML Research Engineer with a strong quantitative background (STEM degree or equivalent) and solid foundations in Python, statistics and data science. You’ll bring a research-minded, experimental approach, with proven ability to write clean, functional code, work with data processing pipelines and apply core data science workflows in practice. Ideally, you’ll hold an advanced research degree (Master’s or PhD) and have a genuine interest in machine learning, LLMs and emerging agentic architectures, alongside an understanding of model evaluation approaches. You’ll be comfortable working in evolving environments and able to communicate complex ideas clearly. Exposure to cloud platforms (particularly GCP), modern development practices (e.g. Git), and a conceptual understanding of web technologies (React/Node) are highly valued, as is any interest or awareness of cybersecurity. Whether early in your career or holding an advanced degree, you’ll thrive in a collaborative environment while taking real ownership, motivated by the opportunity to help build, shape and continuously improve a cutting-edge AI platform from the ground up.
Get in touch!
At Reliance Cyber, we’re proud to be a people-first organisation with ambitious plans for growth, powered by the talent, curiosity and drive of our team. We offer a flexible, supportive environment where individuals can develop, take ownership and make a real impact. We know great people don’t always tick every box, so if you feel you have something special to offer and are excited by what we’re building, we’d still love to hear from you. Alongside a competitive salary, we offer a generous benefits package.
Please apply on our website, ensuring that you include your CV along with details of your current notice period and salary expectations - https://www.reliancecyber.com/culture-careers/.