Browser Security Engineer Intern (JavaScript/Chromium)

Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; onsite. Full-time, 40 hours per week, with a contract length of approximately four months.

Salary: CAD 54,000–62,000 annualized, prorated to the approximately four-month placement.

Company

hirify.global develops geolocation, cybersecurity, and anti-fraud technologies used by global businesses, regulators, and hundreds of millions of devices.

What you will do

• Study how browser-based bots evade current detection at the browser level.
• Work with JavaScript and Chromium internals, browser signals, and internet protocols.
• Formulate and test original hypotheses that reveal bot activity.
• Generate new detection signals and feature ideas for BrowserGuard.
• Validate research against real customer data to reduce missed bots without flagging legitimate users.
• Document the strongest signals so engineering teams can build and ship them.

Requirements

• Master's or PhD-level computer science student, recent graduate, or equivalent experience.
• Strong programming ability and experience with open-ended research problems.
• Understanding of bot detection and fraud strategies, with the ability to learn advanced techniques.
• Knowledge of JavaScript internals and willingness to work with Chromium internals and internet protocols.
• Strong independence, curiosity, and ability to define and drive a research direction.
• Ability to work onsite in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Nice to have

• Contributions to Chromium or other open-source browser or security projects.
• Research experience in bot detection, anti-fraud, anti-spoofing, or adversarial machine learning.
• Published or presented original technical research.

Culture & Benefits

• Mentorship from the BrowserGuard team and senior engineers.
• Hundreds of hours of job-specific training and professional development.
• Meaningful ownership of original research with potential to influence shipped products.
• Potential path to a full-time offer based on research impact.
• Inclusive workplace focused on mutual respect, learning, and in-person collaboration.

Hiring process

• Submit a resume and cover letter.
• Accessible interview support is available upon request.