AI Cyber Threat Research Intern

Trend Micro, a global cybersecurity leader, helps make the world safe for exchanging digital information across enterprises, governments, and consumers.

Fueled by decades of security expertise, global threat research, and continuous innovation, Trend harnesses AI to protect organizations and individuals across clouds, networks, devices, and endpoints.

The Trend Vision One™ enterprise cybersecurity platform accelerates proactive security outcomes by predicting and preventing threats across the entire digital estate and environments like AWS, Google, Microsoft, and NVIDIA.

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Position Summary:

Trend Micro Cyber Threat is seeking an AI Cyber Threat Research Intern to join our industry-leading research team in Canada. Trend Micro Research supports a global customer base including leading security product vendors, software and high-tech manufacturers, telecommunications providers, and large enterprise customers with a set of industry-leading technical data feeds, research products, and engineering services. 

Responsibilities:

• Prepare, analyze, and process comprehensive Threat Intelligence datasets for AI training.

• Develop, train, and test an AI-driven system to assist in creation of filters, and rules tailored to our solutions

• Conduct benchmarking and performance comparisons to identify bottleneck and opportunity to optimize 

• Work closely with other AI researchers and security researchers to improve the efficiency of end-to-end AI pipeline, and ensure seamless integration with existing systems 

Qualifications:

• Currently enrolled in a post-secondary program in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Security, or related fields of study

• A strong desire to learn, demonstrated through personal projects or self-directed learning

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, being able to convey highly technical information in a succinct and accurate way

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills demonstrated through past experience

• Strong knowledge in Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Generative AI, along with experience in fine-tuning Large Language Models (LLMs)

• Proficiency in program languages, such as Python

• Practical experience of development in cloud environments

• Prior experience with an open-ended applied project of ML model to address a real-world problem would be an asset

Preferred Qualifications:

• Course work in Data Structures, Algorithms, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence

• Experience in large-scale data processing, including data gathering, cleaning, and preprocessing

• Proven ability to successfully design, implement, and efficiently execute end-to-end AI pipeline

• Strong programming skills in Python 

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At Trend Micro, we embrace change, empower people, and encourage innovation in a connected world. Our diversity and multicultural workforce are key contributing factors to our success across the globe. Trend Micro welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.