Cyber Security Specialist

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

• 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

Skills:

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

Regards

Talent Acquisition Group - Strategic Recruitment Manager