Science and Technology Lead - Multi-Agent Security
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Employment TypeFull-time
Posted At4/27/2026
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Description
Department: Programmes
Location: London
Compensation: £70,000 - £105,000 / year
Description
Salary Levels: £70,000, £90,000, £105,000 (offers will be calibrated on benchmarked experience levels and assessment against our selection criteria)
Location: Kings X, London; Tues - Thurs (3 days) at HQ, Monday + Friday, anywhere
Employment Type: Full-time
Contract: Permanent
About ARIAARIA is a new R&D funding agency built to unlock technological breakthroughs that benefit everyone. We fund scientists and engineers to pursue research at the edge of the possible.
From climate change to AI, society faces enormous challenges and opportunities that can be uniquely addressed by science and technology. ARIA was created to activate the UK’s world-class R&D in new ways, so we can meet these head on.
Our success is shaped by one question: how will ARIA transform the lives of the UK’s future generations? Whether that’s a life-changing new technology or a burgeoning new industry, it should be obvious that ARIA played a catalytic role.
If you want to help make breakthroughs like these possible, come and build ARIA with us.
Learn more here.
Role Summary
You'll sit alongside the Programme Director, Alex Obadia, as well as the rest of the team in ARIA’s Trust Everything, Everywhere opportunity space–Sarath Murugan, Edith Clare-Hall, Nicola Greco—working on ARIA’s Scaling Trust programme. You’ll be exposed to every aspect of the programme's technical management from design through approval, project selection, and delivery.
Your impact will extend beyond a single programme; you will play a key role in strengthening the wider Trust Everything, Everywhere opportunity space, with a deep, evolving understanding of programmes and projects over time. As Programme Directors join the opportunity space and new programmes are launched, you will surface insights that build on existing ARIA-funded technologies, accelerate discovery, and turn past lessons into future breakthroughs, maximising impact across the portfolio.
We’re looking for an adaptable technical professional who’s strongly motivated by the opportunity to catalyse a technological step change. You’ll be working in a bold, talented & agile team, funding projects across the entire R&D ecosystem, from startups to universities, in the pursuit of groundbreaking advancements that will shape the future of science & technology.
Meet Alex Obadia
Location: London
Compensation: £70,000 - £105,000 / year
Description
Salary Levels: £70,000, £90,000, £105,000 (offers will be calibrated on benchmarked experience levels and assessment against our selection criteria)
Location: Kings X, London; Tues - Thurs (3 days) at HQ, Monday + Friday, anywhere
Employment Type: Full-time
Contract: Permanent
About ARIAARIA is a new R&D funding agency built to unlock technological breakthroughs that benefit everyone. We fund scientists and engineers to pursue research at the edge of the possible.
From climate change to AI, society faces enormous challenges and opportunities that can be uniquely addressed by science and technology. ARIA was created to activate the UK’s world-class R&D in new ways, so we can meet these head on.
Our success is shaped by one question: how will ARIA transform the lives of the UK’s future generations? Whether that’s a life-changing new technology or a burgeoning new industry, it should be obvious that ARIA played a catalytic role.
If you want to help make breakthroughs like these possible, come and build ARIA with us.
Learn more here.
Role Summary
You'll sit alongside the Programme Director, Alex Obadia, as well as the rest of the team in ARIA’s Trust Everything, Everywhere opportunity space–Sarath Murugan, Edith Clare-Hall, Nicola Greco—working on ARIA’s Scaling Trust programme. You’ll be exposed to every aspect of the programme's technical management from design through approval, project selection, and delivery.
Your impact will extend beyond a single programme; you will play a key role in strengthening the wider Trust Everything, Everywhere opportunity space, with a deep, evolving understanding of programmes and projects over time. As Programme Directors join the opportunity space and new programmes are launched, you will surface insights that build on existing ARIA-funded technologies, accelerate discovery, and turn past lessons into future breakthroughs, maximising impact across the portfolio.
We’re looking for an adaptable technical professional who’s strongly motivated by the opportunity to catalyse a technological step change. You’ll be working in a bold, talented & agile team, funding projects across the entire R&D ecosystem, from startups to universities, in the pursuit of groundbreaking advancements that will shape the future of science & technology.
Meet Alex Obadia
Alex Obadia is a member of ARIA’s second cohort of Programme Directors.
The Trust Everything Everywhere team is developing a programme aiming to build the foundations for AI agents—digital and embodied—to operate and coordinate in untrusted environments. By enabling negotiation, collaboration, and exchange between autonomous systems, this work could collapse Coasean “transaction costs,” spark entirely new markets, and redefine how humans and machines work together across the digital and physical worlds.
Find out more about what they’re working on here.
“We are a lean, high-trust, high-performance team looking for someone to bring their own perspective to the table and turbocharge our efforts. We care more about your hunger to learn than your years of experience – and more about your ambition than your credentials.
The scale of what we’re aiming to catalyze – trillion-pound markets, civilizational impact – will require hard work. For the right person, this is a unique opportunity to become a co-owner of an ambitious r&d agenda, to grow faster than ever, and to set yourself up for the next defining step of your career after ARIA. Join us!”
– Alex Obadia, Programme Director
What You'll Do
The scope of the role will evolve as ARIA continues to grow, but will broadly involve the following:
Technical Programme Advisory and Support
The Trust Everything Everywhere team is developing a programme aiming to build the foundations for AI agents—digital and embodied—to operate and coordinate in untrusted environments. By enabling negotiation, collaboration, and exchange between autonomous systems, this work could collapse Coasean “transaction costs,” spark entirely new markets, and redefine how humans and machines work together across the digital and physical worlds.
Find out more about what they’re working on here.
“We are a lean, high-trust, high-performance team looking for someone to bring their own perspective to the table and turbocharge our efforts. We care more about your hunger to learn than your years of experience – and more about your ambition than your credentials.
The scale of what we’re aiming to catalyze – trillion-pound markets, civilizational impact – will require hard work. For the right person, this is a unique opportunity to become a co-owner of an ambitious r&d agenda, to grow faster than ever, and to set yourself up for the next defining step of your career after ARIA. Join us!”
– Alex Obadia, Programme Director
What You'll Do
The scope of the role will evolve as ARIA continues to grow, but will broadly involve the following:
Technical Programme Advisory and Support
- Act as the technical lead, with the Programme Director and their Programme Specialist, to shape and deliver a bold programme of research aimed at enabling AI agents, both embodied and digital, to coordinate with one another in untrusted settings.
- Review project proposals, grant applications, assess technical milestones, and stay close to the ground on what’s being built and tested by Creator teams.
- Plan, lead, and contribute to technical discussions in project meetings, workshops, and formal reviews, bringing depth, challenge, and direction to every interaction.
- Represent the programme, often on behalf of the Programme Director, at events, workshops and talks.
- Support the broader opportunity space by identifying and developing innovative ways to expand it, bringing in new ideas, talent, and opportunities that deliver long-term value beyond the immediate needs of one programme.
- Build trusted relationships with world-class researchers, labs, and founders working at the forefront of the programme’s focus area, as well as the broader opportunity space.
- Collaborate across ARIA on funding models, budgets, tooling, and operational mechanisms to support effective, flexible funding and programme delivery.
- Contribute as a member of ARIA’s team of Science and Technology Leads, sharing best practices and learnings between programmes to strengthen ARIA’s overall portfolio of work.
- Identify opportunities to expand the opportunity space and build the connective tissue between adjacent spaces.
- Help build and sustain ARIA’s scientific and operational culture.
Essential Criteria
- You have strong technical foundations in physics, engineering, or similar, that enables you to understand complex systems and "figure out" the constraints of the physical world, even if your primary experience is digital.
- Proven experience in a "building" role, either as a software/infrastructure engineer at an AI lab, an AI security startup, or a high-level independent developer alongside your primary research. You will have personally written, tested, and shipped complex codebases or AI infrastructure.
- You have demonstrable applied AI experience; have worked with/on AI already, and have thought deeply about the implications of AI on the world.
- Demonstrated experience in AI red-teaming, formal verification, or security research. You should have a "hacker’s" intuition for identifying non-obvious failure modes in agentic systems.
- You have the ability to interrogate the "how" of a project at a granular level, evaluating the technical feasibility of complex milestones (e.g., agentic loops, recursive coordination) from a first-principles engineering perspective.
- Experience in robotics, "nature" cryptography, or autonomous systems where digital agents interact with physical hardware/constraints.
- A track record of not just writing papers, but implementing those theoretical findings into working prototypes or tools.
- Practical or research-led experience in multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL), agentic game theory, or designing mechanisms for coordination in untrusted environments.
- Familiarity with "Scaling Trust” primitives such as Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs), Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs), or programmable cryptography..
- You are obsessed about niche technologies, future technologies, and the future itself.
- You are hungry and ambitious; on a team level, pushing us to think hard about the biggest things we can achieve and ensuring we aim for the moon; on a personal level, setting big goals for yourself that we can help you achieve and support you in.
You have a Scientific qualification, with a preference for PhD in Physics/Maths/Engineering or other deep technical experience in one of the listed areas of interest, or similar; AI security, embodied AI, algorithmic game theory, etc.
Benefits
- 27 days annual leave provision, with the option to buy/sell additional days
- Hybrid working arrangements; 60% in office / 40% at home
- Supportive environment for learning and development opportunities
- Enhanced family leave arrangements
- A free and confidential 24/7 employee assistance programme
- 2 days of paid volunteer days
- 5% defined contribution pension scheme with Smart Pension
- Cycle to Work scheme
- An excellent office location in Kings X, London
If you require any reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process, please notify us and we will make every effort to accommodate you. Disclosing any requests are intended to provide ARIA with the best opportunity to support candidates and will have no negative impact on your recruitment process.
Please note; You will be required, as and when necessary, to travel to different locations around the UK and internationally to support projects, depending on the Programme you are designated to.
ARIA adopts a highly considered approach to ethical and social responsibility. You can read our policy here. Our research and development activity will abide by the 3Rs principle. You can read about those here.