Principal AI Security Researcher – Global Security
RBC
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Toronto • Canada
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About the role
- Monitor and analyze emerging AI security threats, vulnerabilities, and attack vectors specific to RBC's generative AI and agentic AI deployments
- Research attack vectors such as prompt injection, model manipulation, data poisoning, model theft, and AI supply-chain attacks
- Conduct threat landscape assessments tailored to RBC's AI technology stack
- Stay current with evolving AI security threats and defense mechanisms
- Develop proof-of-concept exploits that demonstrate security risks in RBC's AI systems
- Test and validate security controls and mitigations end-to-end
- Produce technical outputs including threat analyses, deep-dive reports, and whitepapers
- Work with AI security engineers and ML/AI/DevOps teams to prioritize threats and develop practical mitigations
- Collaborate with third-party AI security vendors
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in security research and vulnerability research
- 3+ years of experience researching AI/ML security threats, attack vectors, or related domains
- Strong coding experience in one or more general-purpose languages: Python, Go, Java, or similar
- Expert understanding of AI/ML systems, architectures, and operational patterns
- Proven ability to influence technical strategy and security decision-making
- Published research, conference presentations, or open-source contributions in AI security (Nice-to-have)
- Hands-on experience with large language models, multimodal models, and generative AI applications (Nice-to-have)
- Experience with agentic AI systems (Nice-to-have)
- Experience with security research labs, sandbox environments, or POC-to-production pipelines (Nice-to-have)
- Experience collaborating with vendors and external security researchers (Nice-to-have)
Benefits
- A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits
- Competitive compensation
- Commissions and stock where applicable
- Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities
- Flexible work/life balance options
- Opportunities to take on progressively greater accountabilities
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Hard Skills & Tools
PythonGoJavaAI securityvulnerability researchthreat landscape assessmentsproof-of-concept exploitssecurity controls testinglarge language modelsgenerative AI
Soft Skills
influence technical strategysecurity decision-makingcollaboration