CyberSecurity Specialist

Themesoft Inc. • Contract • North York, ON, CA • 3d ago

Role: CyberSecurity Specialist

Location- North York, ON-Hybrid

Duration: 12 months

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 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

Ideal Candidate

• 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.

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

• 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