NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence newly established AI Laboratory is looking for innovative and highly motivated colleagues who blend deep technical expertise with the ability to guide, communicate, and collaborate.
NATO StratCom COE’s AI Lab is an essential driver of the Alliance’s future readiness in the information environment. More than a research hub, it is a strategic enabler, advancing NATO’s edge in the cognitive warfare domain by delivering the research, prototypes, and expertise needed to further develop critical capabilities and maintain superiority in this domain. By addressing urgent challenges — from synthetic environments and digital twins to election safety, AI-powered training, and predictive decision-support — the Lab delivers validated prototypes and expert guidance, ensuring that NATO and its Allies can rapidly adopt AI solutions with a high operational impact.
AI ENGINEER
AI Laboratory is looking for innovative and highly motivated AI Engineer who blends deep technical expertise with the ability to guide, communicate, and collaborate. Someone who not only builds and scales advanced AI systems but also ensures knowledge transfer, ethical application, and meaningful impact in NATO’s Strategic Communications.
Key responsibilities:
- Lead R&D on AI solutions to analyze information environments, assess cognitive effects, and innovate through synthetic environments, audience simulation, and data analytics.
- As a subject-matter expert, advise NATO and Allies, develop educational programmes, and share expertise through forums and publications, translate complex AI insights into actionable guidance for decision-makers.
- Drive forward organisation’s capabilities through applied research, practical experimentation, red-teaming activities, and systematic knowledge-sharing.
- Lead development of secure, scalable ML infrastructure across on-prem and cloud that automates every stage of the model lifecycle—from training and validation to deployment and controlled rollback ensuring efficient, low-latency AI services in coordination with Cloud Engineer and Data Scientist.
Key requirements:
- Master's degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Science, or related technical field. PhD in relevant field is an advantage.
- Proven experience (minimum 3 years) in developing and implementing AI/ML solutions.
- Earlier experience in practical adaptation of machine learning.
- Strong programming skills in Python and relevant AI/ML frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch, etc.).
- Demonstrated experience with at least one of the following domains: natural language processing, computer vision, or predictive modelling.
- Strong background in programming or systems analysis.
- Fluent in several computer languages.
- Demonstrated understanding of ethical and social implications of artificial intelligence.
- Strong intellectual curiosity about the impact of disinformation and information manipulation in the digital age.
- Excellent presentation skills.
What we offer:
- Purpose-driven work, creating meaningful solutions that bring fulfillment and impact.
- Supportive and friendly working environment.
- Opportunity to work in a diverse, international team at the heart of NATO's strategic communications efforts.
- Health insurance and other health supporting benefits.
- Gross salary 6574 EUR – 7640 EUR depending on the work experience.
CLOUD ENGINEER
AI Laboratory is looking for analytical, collaborative, and mission-driven Cloud Engineer who combines deep technical expertise with the ability to communicate clearly, innovate responsibly, and ensure NATO’s cloud and AI capabilities are secure, resilient, and future-ready.
Key responsibilities:
- Monitor AI and cloud advancements, maintaining expertise in model training, fine-tuning, and agent-based applications for NATO’s information space.
- Design and manage secure, scalable cloud infrastructures, automating deployments to support resilient AI applications.
- Develop data architectures and pipelines to support AI and analytics in cloud environments in close cooperation with Data scientists and AI engineers.
- Test effectiveness and applicability of cloud computing solutions and communicate findings through publications and presentations to technical and strategic audiences.
- Collaborate with researchers to ensure cloud solutions meet the technical and scientific requirements.
- Share expertise through conferences, workshops, and training, guiding cloud best practices and supporting the lessons-learned process.
Key requirements:
- A degree in computer science, cloud computing and/or related discipline.
- Strong background and experience in cloud computing, interest in AI applications as well as programming/scripting.
- Prior experience with data science (e.g., data collection, analysis, or visualization) is a strong advantage, but not strictly required.
- Fluency in several computer languages as well as machine learning, in particular large language models.
- Basic understanding of disinformation, cognitive effects, strategic communication, information operations, and/or psychological operations.
- Demonstrated understanding of ethical and social implications of artificial intelligence.
- Excellent presentation skills.
What we offer:
- Purpose-driven work, creating meaningful solutions that bring fulfillment and impact.
- Supportive and friendly working environment.
- Opportunity to work in a diverse, international team at the heart of NATO's strategic communications efforts.
- Health insurance and other health supporting benefits.
Gross salary 6574 EUR – 7640 EUR depending on the work experience.
DATA SCIENTIST
AI Laboratory is looking for innovative, mission-driven Data Scientist who combines deep AI expertise with strong communication and collaboration skills.
Key responsibilities:
- AI Development & Research – lead design and implementation of AI models for analysis, content generation, task automation, and decision support, developing sophisticated tools for detecting malicious content, building robust data pipelines, and creating predictive models and audience simulations to advance intelligence analysis.
- Technical leadership – in collaboration with cross-functional teams, develop comprehensive tracking and analysis tools. Drive AI initiatives, develop risk-assessment methodologies, and research applications for synthetic environments, providing technical leadership that bridges research with practice.
- Knowledge sharing & consultation – Advise NATO and Allies on AI in Strategic Communications, presenting findings to diverse audiences, contributing to publications and conferences, and supporting the Lessons Learned process to ensure research is applied in practice.
- Required focus areas – advanced AI for NATO’s information space, including synthetic environments, audience simulation, AI risk assessment, and predictive analytics—enhancing Strategic Communications training, intelligence exploitation, and resilience against AI-driven threats.
Key requirements:
- Master’s degree in computer science or related discipline.
- Strong background in programming and/or data systems analysis (minimum 2 years).
- Capability to translate data into concrete suggestions and/or actionable conclusions.
- Prior experience with data science (e.g., data collection, analysis, or visualization) is a strong advantage.
- A foundational understanding of disinformation, cognitive effects, strategic communication, information operations, and/or psychological operations.
- Understanding of existing and potential interrelations between strategic communications as well as its components and existing and developing AI capabilities.
- Fluency in several computer languages as well as machine learning, in particular large language models.
- Demonstrated understanding of ethical and social implications of artificial intelligence.
- Excellent presentation skills.
What we offer:
- Purpose-driven work, creating meaningful solutions that bring fulfillment and impact.
- Supportive and friendly working environment.
- Opportunity to work in a diverse, international team at the heart of NATO's strategic communications efforts.
- Health insurance and other health supporting benefits.
- Gross salary 6574 EUR – 7640 EUR depending on the work experience.
Please note that appointment to any of listed positions is subject to the successful completion of a national security clearance process.
How to apply:
Candidates are invited to submit by email a CV outlining relevant experience and motivation letter describing why the candidate is a good fit to hr@stratcomcoe.org by October 24, 2025.
The interest about internships and fellowships at the NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence can be expressed by submitting filled internship/fellowship application form, CV and motivation letter including information about research areas of interest as well as an indication of preferred time frame to the email address hr@stratcomcoe.org.