■ Job Information
Subject No.

2024R-107

Job Title

Fixed Term Researcher

Department

Cybersecurity Research Institute / Cybersecurity Laboratory andCybersecurity Nexus, CYNEX Research, Development andOperations Laboratory

Work Contents（Research theme)

Research on Cybersecurity

In the face of rapidly evolving and increasingly sophisticated cyber threatsthat pose a growing risk to society, our research focuses on thedevelopment of the following cybersecurity technologies to protect criticalsocial systems and support societal maintenance and growth:Technology for the timely detection, visualization, and analysis of various
cyber attacks to stay ahead of the latest cyber threat trends and facilitate
effective responses.

Detail of WorkContents

Techniques for observing, aggregating, and analyzing a wide range ofcybersecurity-related information, leveraging AI and other technologies toenhance effective countermeasures and strengthen organizational
cybersecurity.
Security verification techniques for new network environments, such as
those associated with emerging technologies like Connected Cars and IoTdevices.
Efforts aimed at information fusion with CURE, including DRDoS alerts
within CYNEX, and activities related to external information sharing andcollaboration."
Please note that this translation is a general interpretation of theprovided text, and the specific terminology used may vary depending on
the context and target audience.
The Article 15(2) of the Act on the activation of Science, Technology andInnovation will be applied to this work content.

Employees to be hired through this recruitment may apply for external
competitive research fundings such as Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(KAKENHI) and NICT’s internal research fundings.

Application
requirement

1. It is preferable that the applicant satisfies at least one of the followingtwo conditions:- Research experience and accepted journal papers in cybersecurity area.
- Practical experience in such as aggregating and analyzing cyber threat
intelligence or analyzing malware.
2. Enough knowledge of advanced technology for cybersecurity, especiallycyber threat intelligence.
3. Doctral degree or equivalent experiences in the following researchareas: cybersecurity, information retreaval and data mining.
4. Detailed research proposal on future research plan and thecontributionto the cyber security R&D activities in NICT is required upon
application(any format is acceptable).

Recruiting(Number of people)

1

Contract period

hiring date ～ March 31,2025
N.B. Contract could be renewed.

The employment period
Up to 5 years if certain conditions are fulfilledin case of fully renewing\484,000Salary(basic salary)～\516,000／month

Basic salary shall be determined by taking into account each employee’s
experience and task to be engaged in. However, as a basic salary iscompliant with government employees' wages, it shall be changed when abasic salary is changed after labor union and the like of NICT agreed
under a revision to the government employees' wages.

Work Place

Headquarters, or Cybersecurity Recurrent Evolution Center(Koganei-shi, Tokyo or Musashino-shi, Tokyo)

Working frequency

5days/week（7.5hours/day）

Department name and work place including work contents (research theme) and detail of work
contents might change according to organizational change, etc.
Scope of change in work and workplace : No changes are expected in general.