Trend Micro

Principal AI Architect

Ottawa · Principal

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 7 days ago

AWSMachine LearningSparkLLMsAgentic AICybersecurityDetection EngineeringSupply ChainResearchLeadershipCollaborationPublic Speaking

About the role

This is a senior individual contributor role with real ownership.
You earn your influence not through seniority alone, but through the quality of your judgment and your ability to move things from idea to working reality.

TrendAI™, the global AI security leader and enterprise business unit of Trend Micro, empowers organizations with full AI visibility and consolidated security that inspires confidence, drives innovation, and eliminates risk.
At TrendAI™, we're always seeking exceptional talent; people who want to collaborate with the best and push boundaries together.
Here, your work goes beyond building a career.
Identify where consolidation or modernization efforts create AI architecture opportunities - and where they introduce compounding risk
Design the boundary between autonomous AI decision-making and human expert judgment in critical security workflows
Drive the technical direction of key AI product initiatives from early concept through architecture validation and implementation - not just advising, but owning the technical narrative end to end
Work hands-on to validate technical approaches - prototype where needed, review implementation against architecture intent, and course-correct when execution drifts from design
Collaborate with product, engineering, and research leads to translate strategic bets into technically grounded roadmaps with clear dependencies and risk profiles

A track record - shipped systems, published research, CVEs, open-source contributions, or conference presentations that demonstrate real depth
Production experience with LLM/SLM integration, agentic workflow design, or multi-model systems
Hands-on background in security engineering or research - AI security, threat detection, cloud security, vulnerability research, or large-scale telemetry systems

Experience with adversarial ML, AI red-teaming, or AI system threat modeling
Prior work at or collaboration with TrendLabs, ZDI, or equivalent threat research organizations
Published CVEs, conference papers, or open-source security tooling
Background spanning both offensive security and AI/ML systems
Experience with large-scale security telemetry, XDR correlation, or cloud-native security architectures
Has spoken at, published in, or contributed to recognized security or AI venues
Recognized - or on a clear trajectory to be recognized - as a technical voice in the field
Adoption Assistance

Identify engineers and teams who are genuinely advancing AI-native development and help systematize what they are doing
Advise on AI tooling that genuinely accelerates work, and flag where AI introduces risk rather than leverage
Opportunities to represent
TrendAI's security products protect hundreds of millions of devices and cloud workloads worldwide.
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