Cyber Security Jobs in Cambridge

• Cambridge
• Senior

Provides technical leadership for FPGA-based solutions in security-focused systems, owning architecture, VHDL RTL design, verification, and integration with embedded and host software. Balances hands-on implementation with planning, estimation, and mentoring, while defining development processes such as CI/CD and configuration management.

Xilinx · Zynq · Versal +6

• Cambridge
• Hybrid · 2 days in office
• Senior

Lead strategic and hands-on UX research across multiple cybersecurity products, defining a cross-product research roadmap with UX, Product and Engineering leaders. Conduct qualitative and quantitative studies to inform platform unification, navigation and information architecture, translating findings into personas, journey maps and workflow models while scaling research practice.

• Cambridge

Investigates emerging cyber threats and attacker TTPs across production and lab environments, analysing security data to improve detection and response. Works closely with development teams to turn research findings into product improvements, using scripting and data analysis to test new detection approaches.

MITRE ATT&CK · PowerShell

• Cambridge
• On-site
• £80,000 – £95,000 pa
• Senior
• Permanent

Owns software security strategy, roadmap and architecture across a product portfolio, leading threat modelling, secure design and security requirements. Defines secure architecture patterns and controls, embeds security into development and CI/CD, and oversees vulnerability management, security testing and release assurance while providing technical leadership to engineering teams.

Embedded Linux · Android · CI/CD

• Cambridge
• On-site
• £80,000 – £100,000 pa
• Senior
• Permanent

Owns software security strategy, architecture and standards across a diverse product portfolio, embedding threat modelling and secure-by-design into the full lifecycle. Works with engineering and product teams on architecture reviews, vulnerability management, CI/CD security and release criteria, plus EU Cyber Resilience Act compliance. Desirable background includes embedded systems, IoT, Android and embedded Linux.

Android · Embedded Linux

• Cambridge
• Hybrid
• Senior
• Permanent

Designs, implements and maintains AWS cloud infrastructure supporting microservices-based applications, with heavy focus on EKS, Kubernetes and Terraform/OpenTofu IaC. Also covers service mesh (ISTIO), CI/CD with Jenkins, Splunk and Datadog monitoring, and day-2 operations such as upgrades, backup/restore and cost optimisation.

AWS · EKS · Kubernetes +7

• Cambridge
• On-site
• Mid-level
• Permanent

Consultants assess critical systems for cyber-physical vulnerabilities, combining deep hardware research, testing and reverse engineering with rapid prototyping of proof-of-concept demonstrators. Work spans niche defence and national security projects, interfacing with hardware via protocols like JTAG and UART and using test equipment such as oscilloscopes. The role is fully on-site in Cambridge labs within a flat, collaborative ~40-person consultancy.

JTAG · UART · Oscilloscopes

• Cambridge
• On-site
• Mid-level
• Permanent

Consultants assess critical systems for vulnerabilities, building proof-of-concept demonstrators that combine software, hardware and user interaction. The role spans reverse engineering, low-level programming and rapid prototyping for UK defence and national security clients, working on-site alongside around 40 scientists and engineers.

• Cambridge
• Hybrid
• £60,000 – £70,000 pa
• Senior

Senior role shaping system design and test criteria for Linux-based embedded systems, leading software security work including Hardware Root of Trust, Secure Boot and TPM integration. Day to day involves embedded C development, Yocto build systems and Linux kernel work, integrating software with hardware via I2C, SPI and UART, plus root-cause debugging. The position also includes mentoring junior engineers within an Agile R&D environment.

Linux · Yocto · Jenkins +6