Security Engineer - AI Security Research (Toronto, ON, M5A 3N7) | 09/22/26

Job Description Job Title:

Security Engineer - AI Security Research

Location:

Toronto, ON (Day 1 onsite)

Role Summary:

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.

Must have PHD in Artificial intelligence.

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 Regards, Fariyab Khan E-Solutions Inc. | 2 North Market Street | Suite #400 | San Jose, CA - 95113

US Direct:

408-785-9218 |

Fax:

408-521-0167

Email:

fariyab.k@E-solutionsinc.com |

Web:

www.e-solutionsinc.com

Disclaimer:

E-Solutions provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. We especially invite women, minorities, veterans, and individuals with disabilities to apply. EEO/AA/M/F/Vet/Disability. Security Engineer - AI Security Research1Java, Python, api, vulnerability, cybersecurity, Threat Modeling, LLM, ai security Canada