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AI Technical Security Research Engineer
- Toronto, ON, Canada
$55 to $60 CAD / hour · Contract
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- Role / Skill: AI security research
- Location: Canada (Toronto)
- Location Option - TORONTO - Day 1 onsite - all 5 days office
- Exp 6 to 9 years
- CI F2F requirement: - Yes
Security Engineer:
Security Engineer
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.
- 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
The ideal candidate combines the mindset of a security researcher, software engineer, and emerging-technology evaluator and is comfortable turning new ideas into measurable, working cybersecurity capabilities
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Responsibilities
Research, prototype, test, and operationalize emerging cybersecurity capabilities, including agentic AI security harnesses and proof-of-concepts. Evaluate cybersecurity products and startups through hands-on testing and technical due diligence, then present findings and recommendations to engineering, security leadership, and investment stakeholders.
Requirements
Requires a master’s degree in cybersecurity, computer science, AI, computer engineering, or a related field; a PhD is welcomed. Candidates should have strong software development skills, experience with AI agents and security tools, broad cybersecurity knowledge, and the ability to design experiments, build prototypes, and communicate technical findings.
Skills
- AI Security Research
- Agentic AI
- Python
- Java
- Node.js
- Go
- C/C++
- Large Language Models
- AI Agents
- Application Security
- Vulnerability Research
- Threat Modeling
- Secure Development
- Network Security
- Security Architecture
- Security Automation
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Categories
- Security & Safety
- Technology
- Software
- Science & Research
- Engineering
Keywords
- AI Security
- Agentic AI
- Application Security
- Quantum Computing
- Post-Quantum Cryptography
- Blockchain
- Cybersecurity
- Security Research
- Proof Of Concept
- Python
- Java
- Node.js
- Go
- C/C++
- Large Language Models
- AI Agents
- Tool Calling
- Orchestration Frameworks
- APIs
- Cloud
- Containers
- Security Automation
- Vulnerability Research
- Threat Modeling
- Network Security
- Security Architecture
- AI Red Teaming
- CISSP
- OSCP