Principal AI Architect

Trend Micro
Ottawa
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Independent judgment","Technical evaluation","Stakeholder communication"]

Architect AI-native security systems with a focus on agentic decision workflows, defining end-to-end technical vision from on-device inference to cloud-assisted pipelines. Own architectural trade-offs across latency, accuracy, evasion resistance, and maintainability, and validate solutions through hands-on prototyping and reviews. Drive strategic AI initiatives in collaboration with product, engineering, and research, and represent TrendAI’s technical thinking at major security and AI venues.

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Trend Micro
Trend Micro
1 month ago

Principal AI Architect

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Job Summary

Architect AI-native security systems with a focus on agentic decision workflows, defining end-to-end technical vision from on-device inference to cloud-assisted pipelines. Own architectural trade-offs across latency, accuracy, evasion resistance, and maintainability, and validate solutions through hands-on prototyping and reviews. Drive strategic AI initiatives in collaboration with product, engineering, and research, and represent TrendAI’s technical thinking at major security and AI venues.
Location: Ottawa
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own the architectural vision for integrating AI into security domains, spanning on-device inference, cloud-assisted pipelines, and fully agentic decision workflows.
  • •Design AI-native systems from first principles and define trade-offs across latency, resource budgets, accuracy, evasion resistance, and platform constraints.
  • •Architect boundaries between autonomous AI decision-making and human expert judgment for critical security workflows, including tool use, orchestration, memory, and guardrails.
  • •Drive key AI product initiatives from early concept through architecture validation and technical narrative ownership, including prototyping and course-correcting when execution drifts.
  • •Define evaluation and AI adoption frameworks, and identify where modernization or consolidation creates AI architecture opportunities or compounding risk.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVisionLife InsuranceDisabilityParental LeaveAdoption AssistancePet Insurance401kPaid LeaveTuition Assistance

Key Requirements

  • •Hands-on experience in security engineering or research (e.g., AI security, threat detection, cloud security, vulnerability research, or large-scale telemetry).
  • •Deep understanding of at least one security domain at production scale, including failure modes and real-world constraints.
  • •Production experience integrating LLM/SLM systems into agentic workflows or multi-model systems, including planning, tool use, memory, orchestration, and human oversight.
  • •Ability to reason about inference trade-offs (latency, privacy, accuracy, evasion resistance) and agentic failure modes in adversarial environments.
  • •Track record demonstrating depth, such as shipped systems, published research, CVEs, open-source contributions, or conference presentations.
Experience:Security engineeringAI securityAgentic AI
Skills:Independent judgmentTechnical evaluationStakeholder communication
Tech Stack:LLMSLMMulti-agent systemsAgentic pipelinesOrchestrationMemoryGuardrailsOWASPMITRE ATLASXDRCloud-native security

Company Brief

Trend Micro
Global cybersecurity company providing endpoint, cloud, network, and hybrid security solutions to protect businesses and consumers from cyber threats, leveraging threat intelligence, machine learning, and automated protection across environments.
Industry: Cybersecurity
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Tokyo, Japan
Founded: 1988
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