CyberSecurity Specialist
- Toronto, ON, Canada
- North York, ON, Canada
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Position: CyberSecurity 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
- 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.
- 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
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
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Patrick Fernandez
Talent Acquisition Group - Strategic Recruitment Manager
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Responsibilities
Build and integrate agentic AI security prototypes, harnesses, and proof-of-concepts, and research emerging areas such as AI security, 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 investment stakeholders.
Requirements
The role requires experience with LLMs, AI agents, APIs, orchestration, cloud, containers, and security automation, along with strong knowledge across application, AI, network, infrastructure, and architectural security. Candidates should be able to develop prototypes and evaluate emerging technologies; relevant research, innovation, startup, investment-pitching, or AI red-teaming experience and certifications such as CISSP, OSCP, or CSSLP are also cited.
Skills
- AI Security
- Agentic AI
- Large Language Models
- Application Security
- Security Research
- Python
- Java
- Node.js
- Go
- C/C++
- Threat Modeling
- Secure Development
- Network Security
- Security Architecture
- Cloud Platforms
- Security Automation
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Hiring contact
Patrick Fernandez
Categories
- Security & Safety
- Technology
- Software
- Science & Research
- Consulting
Keywords
- AI Security
- Agentic AI
- Large Language Models
- Tool Calling
- Orchestration Frameworks
- APIs
- Security Automation
- Application Security
- Quantum Computing
- Post-Quantum Cryptography
- Blockchain
- Python
- Java
- Node.js
- Go
- C/C++
- Cloud Platforms
- Containers
- Threat Modeling
- Secure Development
- Network Security
- Infrastructure Security
- Security Architecture
- Vulnerability Research
- AI Red Teaming
- Technical Due Diligence
- CISSP
- OSCP
- CSSLP