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About the Role
Seeking a postdoctoral researcher to work on TrustAttest, an Innovate UK project developing a continuous compliance monitoring and automated remediation platform for SME software vendors. The project addresses adoption of the UK Government’s Software Security Code of Practice by translating SSCoP requirements into observable technical signals across development environments. The researcher will contribute to the formal SSCoP-to-signal mapping ontology and associated evaluation methods.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the development of innovative methods linking Secure Software Code of Practice (SSCoP) principles to machine-observable security evidence.
- Analyse software development and supply chain telemetry.
- Support AI-assisted compliance monitoring.
- Evaluate compliance signals, classifier performance, and vulnerability reduction through pilot deployments and real-world validation activities.
Requirements
- Masters, or equivalent experience, in computer science, cybersecurity, software engineering, engineering, AI for security, formal methods, or a related area.
- Experience with software supply chain security, SBOMs, CI/CD security, vulnerability management, compliance automation, ontologies, machine learning evaluation, or developer security tooling would be advantageous.
Skills
- Software supply chain security
- SBOMs
- CI/CD security
- Vulnerability management
- Compliance automation
- Ontologies
- Machine learning evaluation
- Developer security tooling
- Applied cybersecurity
- Secure software engineering
- AI-supported compliance
- Industry-facing research
Location
- London
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Postdoctoral
Education Level
- Masters
Salary/Compensations
- Sector-leading salary
Benefits
- Pension scheme
- Comprehensive package of staff training and development
About the Company
- City St George’s, University of London is the University of business, practice and the professions and brings together the expertise and excellence of City, University of London and St George’s, University of London into one institution.
- The combined university is now one of the largest higher education destinations for London students, combining a breadth of disciplines across health, business, policy, law, creativity, communications, science and technology.
- Our students are at the heart of everything that we do, and we are committed to supporting them to pursue their career and personal ambitions.
- Our research is engaged, at the frontier of practice and has a positive impact on the world around us.
Equal Opportunity
- City St George’s, University of London is committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion in all its activities, processes, and culture for our whole community, including staff, students and visitors.
- We welcome applications regardless of age, caring responsibilities, disability, gender identity, gender reassignment, marital status, nationality, pregnancy, race and ethnic origin, religion and belief, sex, sexual orientation and socio-economic background.
- City St George’s operates a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants.