Technical Security Research Engineer nk

Technical Security Research Engineer Expereince 5 to 9 Yrs 1 Toronto (3 days WFO at customer location & 2 days WFH) EST 52 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.

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