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Cyber Security Researcher

🏢 DNV KEMA Energy & Sustainability 📍 trondheim 📅 27 October 2026

Job Description

About us: We are the independent expert in assurance and risk management. Driven by our purpose, to safeguard life, property, and the environment, we empower our customers and their stakeholders with facts and reliable insights so that critical decisions can be made with confidence.
As a trusted voice for many of the world’s most successful organizations, we use our knowledge to advance safety and performance, set industry benchmarks, and inspire and invent solutions to tackle global transformations.
About Group functions
Group functions in DNV are experts on finance and accounting, human resources, communication and sustainability, legal, tax and compliance - providing company-wide support, governance and strategic projects. Group also includes our strategic Research and Development unit, which provides science-based insights and foresight to tackle transformations and challenges across the industries we serve.
- About the role: About Group R&D and the Cyber Security research programGroup Research and Development (GRD) performs strategic and applied research for DNV focusing on knowledge development through collaborations with academia and industry, providing thought leadership through external publications and forecasts, and creates scientific legitimacy to DNV services. A major focus for GRD is to shape the future of cyber security and resilience. The Cyber Security research program conducts strategic research and develops innovative methods and tools based on a common risk approach to shape the future of assurance in cyber security, addressing technological, societal, human factors, and trust-related challenges across industries. Our aim is to secure industrial assets, high-risk cyber physical systems, and critical infrastructure. We explore the impact of new technologies such as AI and quantum computing, alongside evolving security regulations. We drive innovation through demonstrators and prototypes, testing novel security approaches and barrier principles.The program was recently formally established and is currently in the process of developing a strategy and identifying the directions for research. We are aiming for an interdisciplinary team with researchers with both technical and non-technical backgrounds. About the roleYou will be taking part in the building of the team, shaping our research priorities, and exploring relevant research areas. You will play a key role in cutting-edge projects focused on industrial cyber security, where IT and OT meet and new threats arise, new legislation, regulations and standards come into play, and the development of new assurance roles for DNV. Your main responsibilities will include: Conduct in-depth research on industrial cyber security, legislation, standardization and global regulatory trends.Monitor and summarize developments from major standards bodies, government agencies, international agencies, and academic forums.Analyze and distill implications of the national, regional, and global trends for assurance of cyber security and resilience.Develop pilots to demonstrate use of AI with curated cyber security information repositories and knowledge graphs.Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams in joint R&D activities to translate research into novel assurance frameworks for cyber security.Collaborate with external academic and commercial partners in externally funded research projects, both nationally and internationally.Take the role of PM for internal and externally funded R&D projects on our core research topics.Communicate through briefs, position papers, presentations, and thought-leadership articles for internal and external audiences.Bring research into action either in DNV business areas or at our customers.
**Benefits**:
Please note, benefits may depend on your contract type, please confirm with your recruiter.
**Profit Share**:
Du blir en del av vår globale overskuddsdelingsordning, som betyr at vi deler suksessen vår som selskap. Når vi gjør det bra, gjør du det også. Dette er en del av vår totale kompensasjon hvert år og avhenger av årsresultatene våre.**Personlig utvikling**:
Du får mange muligheter til å lære og vokse. Enten det handler om å bygge nettverk, få ressurser til å planlegge og nå dine karrieremål, eller ha frihet til å følge din egen nysgjerrighet - vi sørger for at du kontinuerlig utvikler deg.**Formålsdrevet organisasjon**:
Du blir en del av et verdensledende selskap med et tydelig formål: å verne liv, verdier og miljø. Du får muligheten til å bidra til å møte globale endringer gjennom arbeidet ditt.**Konkurransedyktige betingelser**:
Vi legger vekt på balanse mellom jobb og fritid og tilbyr fleksibel arbeidstid og arbeidssted, seks ukers ferie, subsidiert kantine, konkurransedyktig pensjonsordning, forsikringer og en global overskuddsdelingsordning.**Støttende kultur**:
Vi gir deg muligheter til å bygge relasjoner gjennom sosiale og profesjonelle nettverk. Vårt største fellesskap, CONNECT, arrangerer sosiale sammenkom

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