Science and Technology Lead - Multi-Agent Security

ARIA 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.

– Alex Obadia, Programme Director