Role: Technical Security Research Engineer location: Toronto

Mode: Contract

Technical Security Research Engineer

- to research, prototype, evaluate, and operationalize emerging cybersecurity capabilities.
- This is a hands-on role for someone who can move from a research hypothesis to working code, proof-of-concept, product evaluation, and enterprise recommendation.

Responsibilities

- Build agentic AI security harnesses, prototypes, and POCs for new cyber capabilities.
- Research AI Security, Agentic AI, Application Security, quantum/PQC,

blockchain, and other emerging technologies.
- Develop and integrate agents, LLMs, APIs, security tools, automation, and test environments.
- Evaluate new cybersecurity products and startups through hands-on testing,

benchmarking, and technical due diligence.
- Validate vendor claims and assess security, scalability, integration complexity,

and enterprise applicability.
- Help transition successful research prototypes toward operational use.
- Present technical findings and recommendations to engineering, security leadership, and investment stakeholders.

Qualifications

- Master’s degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, AI, Computer Engineering,

or related field; PhD welcomed.
- Strong hands-on software development skills, particularly Python, Java, Node,

Go, C/C++ with experience in additional modern programming languages.




- Experience with LLMs, AI agents, tool calling, orchestration frameworks, APIs,

cloud, containers, and security automation.
- Solid knowledge of Application Security, AI Security, vulnerability research,

threat modeling, Secure development, Network security, infrastructure Security,

Security Architecture and other security domains.

- Demonstrated ability to design experiments, build prototypes, and evaluate emerging technologies.

Classification: Internal

- Strong technical writing and presentation skills.

Highly Valued

- Research papers or presentations at recognized cybersecurity, AI, or systems forums.
- Experience with AI red teaming, autonomous penetration testing, agent security,

or AI-native security tooling.
- Cybersecurity startup, founder, or early-stage product experience.
- Experience pitching to venture capital, corporate venture teams, accelerators, or investment stakeholders.
- Patents, open-source security projects, vulnerability research, or other demonstrated technical innovation.
- Certifications : CISSP, OSCP, CSSLP or equivalent.

The ideal candidate

- combines the mindset of a security researcher, software engineer, and emergingtechnology evaluator and is comfortable turning new ideas into measurable,

working cybersecurity capabilities

📌 Technical Security Research Engineer (Toronto)
🏢 Yochana
📍 Toronto