Security Research Engineer AI Security, Agentic AI & Emerging Cybersecurity

Security Research Engineer - AI Security Agentic AI & Emerging Cybersecurity

Must Have Technical Skills

• 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.
  

Roles and 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.
  

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.
  

Technical Leadership

• Masters 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.
  

Generic Managerial Skills

• Masters 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.