Application Security Researcher (AI)

Location: Canada

Company

hirify.global secures the AI-driven software development lifecycle from prompt to production by unifying development and cloud context to prevent vulnerabilities at their source.

What you will do

• Research vulnerability chaining, business-logic flaws, and complex attack paths across applications and infrastructure.
• Design and build detection engines and decision-making logic for autonomous security systems.
• Evaluate AI models for application security use cases and measure their effectiveness and limitations.
• Prototype, build, and ship security capabilities into production environments.
• Analyze large-scale security data to identify exploitable attack paths and improve detection accuracy.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, and Data teams while owning research initiatives from idea to shipped capability.

Requirements

• M.Sc. in Computer Science, Cyber Security, or a related field.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience in offensive security, vulnerability research, or application security.
• Deep understanding of web application and API vulnerabilities, business-logic flaws, and multi-step attack chains.
• Strong coding skills in Python, Go, or a similar language, with experience shipping production-quality code.
• Experience with detection logic such as SAST, DAST, SCA, secrets, or custom rule engines, including reducing false positives.
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, containers, Kubernetes, a major cloud provider, LLMs or AI models, and large datasets using SQL, BigQuery, or similar tools.

Nice to have

• Published research, CVEs, conference talks, or a bug bounty track record.
• Experience building AI agents or LLM evaluation frameworks.
• Background in exploit development, red teaming, or penetration testing.
• Experience with taint analysis, call graphs, reachability, or open-source security tools.

Culture & Benefits

• Hands-on work on application security for the AI era.
• Collaboration with engineers, security researchers, and AI and data scientists.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage for Canada-based team members through Vensure.
• Unlimited paid time off with an emphasis on work-life balance.
• Birthday, work anniversary, and holiday gifts.