Job Description/ Responsibilities

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 up-to-date programming languages.

" Experience with LLMs, AI agents, tool calling, orchestration frameworks, APIs, cloud, containers, and security automation.

" Strong 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.

" 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

Ideal Candidate

" The ideal candidate combines the mindset of a security researcher, software engineer, and emerging-technology evaluator and is comfortable turning recent ideas into measurable, working cybersecurity capabilities.

What are the top 3 skills required for this role?

1. AI Security & Agentic AI Development

" Experience with LLMs, AI agents, tool calling, orchestration frameworks, APIs, and security automation

" Ability to build agentic AI security harnesses, prototypes, and proof-of-concepts

" Knowledge of AI Security and emerging AI-native security technologies

2. Security Research & Emerging Technology Evaluation

" Research experience in Application Security, AI Security, Quantum/PQC, Blockchain, and other emerging technologies

" Ability to design experiments, build prototypes, benchmark products, and perform technical due diligence

" Experience validating vendor claims and assessing enterprise applicability

3. Software Engineering & Security Architecture

" Robust development skills in Python (most important), along with Java, Node.js, Go, and C/C

" Hands-on experience integrating APIs, cloud platforms, containers, and automation frameworks

" Deep understanding of Application Security, Threat Modeling, Secure Development, Network Security, Infrastructure Security, and Security Architecture

Years of Experience: 10.00 Years of Experience

📌 Cybersecurity Engineer (North York)
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📍 North York