Trend Micro
Principal AI Architect
Ottawa · Principal
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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.
Responsibilities
- 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.
- Builds credibility through the quality of analysis, not through authority
- Not a team lead managing headcount or sprint delivery - but expected to own technical outcomes, not just recommendations
- Not a hands-on daily coder of production systems - but expected to prototype, validate, and get close enough to implementation to know when something isn't working
Requirements
- 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
Nice to have
- 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
Skills
- TrendAI's security products protect hundreds of millions of devices and cloud workloads worldwide.
- Define trade-off frameworks for
Compensation
- 14 Annual Holidays
Benefits
- TrendAI provides benefit options for you and your family.
- Comprehensive medical, dental and vision insurance
- Life insurance
- Short & Long Term Disability.
- Pre-partum, maternity, parental and medical leave
- Mental Health Wellness Program
- Wellness Incentive
Company info
- Achieving work-life balance is a priority, complemented by team activities, fostering an environment rooted in equity, inclusion, and collaboration, that is reflected in both our culture and our work. Be Passionate.
- At Trend Micro, we embrace change, empower people, and encourage innovation in a connected world.
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