System Security Research Engineer – OS and Device Protection

Confidential

Markham, Ontario, Canada permanent

Posted: March 6, 2026

Required Skills

Job Description

Huawei Canada has an immediate permanent opening for a System Security Research Engineer.

About the team:
The Digital Trust Lab is dedicated to ensuring user data flows while maintaining privacy. Researchers focus on key areas such as user identity authentication, data integrity, privacy protection, extensive model privacy assessment, multi-modal data identification, differential privacy, and federated learning. The lab supports deep research and encourages publications in leading journals. Research outcomes are applied across various Huawei product lines, including mobile phones, smart devices, and communications technologies.

About the job:

• Conduct research and prototyping of new security technologies to protect OS kernels, firmware, mobile systems, and devices.

• Analyze and understand advanced threat vectors, including memory corruption, privilege escalation, side-channel attacks, and firmware exploitation.

• Evaluate and build upon hardware-based protections such as Hypervisors, Trusted Execution Environments (TEE), and Secure Boot.

• Design innovative security features that improve isolation, access control, exploit resistance, or threat detection.

• Work closely with product teams to transition successful research into practical solutions and hardened products.

• Monitor and assess emerging vulnerabilities, industry trends, and academic advancements.

• Publish research, propose patents, or present at internal or external technical forums.

The total target annual compensation for this position ranges from $127,000 to $225,000 depending on education, experience, and demonstrated expertise.

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