ABOUT US

Sophos is a global leader and innovator of advanced security solutions for defeating cyberattacks. The company acquired Secureworks in February 2025, bringing together two pioneers that have redefined the cybersecurity industry with their innovative, native AI-optimized services, technologies and products. Sophos is now the largest pure-play Managed Detection and Response (MDR) provider, supporting more than 28,000 organizations. In addition to MDR and other services, Sophos’ complete portfolio includes industry-leading endpoint, network, email, and cloud security that interoperate and adapt to defend through the Sophos Central platform. Secureworks provides the innovative, market-leading Taegis XDR/MDR, identity threat detection and response (ITDR), next-gen SIEM capabilities, managed risk, and a comprehensive set of advisory services. Sophos sells all these solutions through reseller partners, Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs) worldwide, defending more than 600,000 organizations worldwide from phishing, ransomware, data theft, other every day and state-sponsored cybercrimes. The solutions are powered by historical and real-time threat intelligence from Sophos X-Ops and the newly added Counter Threat Unit (CTU). Sophos is headquartered in Oxford, U.K. More information is available at www.sophos.com.
Are you interested in joining a team that is responsible for the research and development of next-generation security products that are actively used by many customers every day? Are you interested in developing high-performance tooling to support big data machine-learning projects? Are you interested in learning how to deploy practical high-performance machine-learning models for real-world problems?
The Sophos Artificial Intelligence (Sophos AI or SAI)department is looking for a Software Engineer to join our software engineering team. As a member of our team, you will work on two main areas. First one is the development and maintenance of our internal AWS cloud-based test systems to ensure the superior quality of deliverables used by Sophos products to provide protection to all our customers. Second one is to deliver our ML models to wide variety of Sophos products running in the AWS Could and running on the computers (MS Windows, Linux, Android) of our customers.
To succeed in this role you will be passionate about developing high-quality deliverables, continuous improvement, and cooperation between global teams and keen to use your excellent skills to contribute to the success of the Sophos Artificial Intelligence team.

READY TO JOIN US?

At Sophos, we believe in the power of diverse perspectives to fuel innovation. Research shows that candidates sometimes hesitate to apply if they don’t check every box in a job description. We challenge that notion. Your unique experiences and skills might be exactly what we need to enhance our team. Don’t let a checklist hold you back – we encourage you to apply.

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• Software Development. – Innovate, design, develop and deliver features into the Sophos AI automated systems area, focusing on ML supporting systems taking it to an industry leading next generation position. Native C++ software development when delivering ML models to Sophos products.

• Continuous Improvement – Identify key metrics, put measurement in place and work on to meet them. Do this using the Agile Software development framework of SCRUM.
• DevOps – Implement CI/CD, operational metrics and monitoring for Sophos AI systems and support them.