Closed listing
Cyber Security Specialist
- Toronto, ON, Canada
- North York, ON, Canada
Contract
This opening has closed.
The original listing is kept below for reference.
Job details
- Job type
- Contract
- Closing date
- Posting language
- English
- Posted
Similar jobs hiring now
Search current openingsOriginal job description
Archived listing. The details below describe a past opening.
Role: Cyber Security Specialist
Location: North York, ON(Hybrid)
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
- 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.
- Certifications : CISSP, OSCP, CSSLP or equivalent
Required Skills:
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
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
Software Engineering & Security Architecture
- Strong 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
Regards
Praveen Kumar
Talent Acquisition Group – Strategic Recruitment Manager
praveen.r@themesoft.com| Themesoft Inc
More about this job
Responsibilities
Build and test agentic AI security prototypes, integrate AI agents and security tools, and research emerging technologies such as application security, quantum/PQC, and blockchain. Evaluate cybersecurity products through hands-on testing and technical due diligence, help move successful prototypes toward operational use, and present findings to technical and business stakeholders.
Requirements
Requires strong software development skills, especially in Python, and experience with LLMs, AI agents, APIs, cloud platforms, containers, and security automation. Candidates should have broad cybersecurity knowledge, the ability to design experiments and evaluate emerging technologies, strong technical communication skills, and certifications such as CISSP, OSCP, CSSLP, or equivalent.
Skills
- AI Security
- Agentic AI Development
- Python
- Java
- Node.js
- Go
- C/C++
- LLMs
- API Integration
- Security Automation
- Application Security
- Threat Modeling
- Secure Development
- Network Security
- Infrastructure Security
- Security Architecture
Visa sponsorship
Not detected in the job text
Hiring contact
Praveen Kumar
Hiring contact email
praveen.r@themesoft.com
Categories
- Security & Safety
- Technology
- Software
- Science & Research
Keywords
- AI Security
- Agentic AI
- LLMs
- Python
- Java
- Node.js
- Go
- C/C++
- APIs
- Cloud Platforms
- Containers
- Security Automation
- Application Security
- Quantum Computing
- Post-Quantum Cryptography
- Blockchain
- Vulnerability Research
- Threat Modeling
- Secure Development
- Network Security
- Infrastructure Security
- Security Architecture
- Technical Due Diligence
- Product Benchmarking
- CISSP
- OSCP
- CSSLP