Senior Applied Quantum Safe Research Scientist- Innovation and Ventures

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If you’re looking for a career that will help you stand out, join HSBC, and fulfil your potential. Whether you want a career that could take you to the top, or simply take you in an exciting new direction, HSBC offers opportunities, support and rewards that will take you further.

Join HSBC’s Emerging Technology, Innovation and Ventures function as we explore transformative technologies that can shape the future of financial services. You’ll be part of a research-led environment that blends academic curiosity with real-world application.

As an HSBC employee in the UK, you will have access to tailored professional development opportunities and a competitive pay and benefits package. This includes private healthcare for all UK-based employees, enhanced maternity and adoption pay and support when you return to work, and a contributory pension scheme with a generous employer contribution.

We’re looking for a forward-thinking Quantum Safe Research Scientist to help shape and deliver the future of quantum-safe and cryptographically agile solutions. You’ll work across strategic research, solution design, and stakeholder engagement, supporting the bank’s growing capability in advanced cryptography.

In this role, you will:

Strategic Focus: Support the bank’s overall strategy for quantum safety and cryptographic agility, ensuring alignment with evolving technology and risk landscapes.
Project Contribution: Contribute to the delivery of ongoing initiatives in quantum-safe technologies and cryptographic agility across software and hardware domains.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work with internal business units to ensure delivery of cryptographic outcomes that align with best practices and operational needs.
Research Development: Help initiate, shape and lead new research projects and grant proposals, in close consultation with the quantum communications lead.
Solution Design: Lead the generation and development of innovative cryptographic solutions and system architectures, from concept through to implementation.

To be successful in this role you should meet the following requirements:

Cryptographic Awareness: Familiarity with cryptographic agility concepts and post-quantum cryptographic algorithms, standards, implementation and libraries, and an understanding of how they apply to security systems.
Technical Foundations: Research and development experience of, and experience in the in-production deployment of solutions in cybersecurity, applied cryptography, or cryptographic systems architecture, or related areas.
Systems Understanding: Familiarity with enterprise-level networks, systems, cloud concepts and architectures.
Research Mindset: An innovative and curious approach to cryptography, with an interest in exploring advanced areas such as zero-knowledge proofs, multiparty computation, or AI for cybersecurity.
Stakeholder Engagement: Ability to communicate clearly and work effectively with technical teams, business leaders, and external partners.

Opening a world of opportunity. You’ll achieve more when you join HSBC.

At HSBC we look to enable our employees to better balance their work / life priorities and have the flexibility required to meet challenging needs as they progress through different life stages. Where possible we will consider the following flexible working options: part-time working, job sharing, term-time working, and working from home and staggered hours. If in considering a role with HSBC, you have a need for some flexibility in your working arrangements please discuss this with the recruitment team in the early stages of the application process.

We believe that being open to a range of perspectives and cultures is vital for our business. We work hard to ensure our diverse and inclusive workplace reflects the communities we serve. We want everyone to achieve their potential – regardless of their gender, ethnicity, disability, religion, sexual orientation, or age. If you have a different way of seeing the world, we are interested in hearing from you.

HSBC is committed to being an inclusive employer and providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process for all. We will provide reasonable adjustments to remove any disadvantage to you being considered for this role. We are proud members of the Disability Confident Scheme and will offer an interview to disabled candidates who meet the minimum criteria for the role.

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Telephone: +44 2078328500.

Within the workplace you will have access to various employee resource groups which aim to promote and achieve a healthy work / life balance and support our diversity ambitions. HSBC has processes in place to avoid nepotism. This means we will avoid circumstances in which the appearance or possibility of conflicts of interest may exist within the hiring process.

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