Browser Security Engineer Intern

Salary Range: 54000 to 62000 (Currency: CAD) (Pay period: per-year-salary)

What You’ll do:

• Study how browser-based bots evade current detection, working close to the Chromium and JavaScript internals where the signals actually live.

• Form and test original hypotheses about what gives a bot away, producing a steady stream of net-new detection signals and feature ideas for BrowserGuard (Project Decard).

• Validate your ideas against real customer data, so what you propose catches bots the current system misses without flagging real users.

• Hand your best signals to the engineering team in a form they can build and ship.

• Embrace Stretch Opportunities (The Fun Part!): As a GeoComply intern, expect to be pushed. You'll be given special, high-value projects outside the immediate scope of your role, a chance to explore new skills, test your limits, and adapt to new challenges across the business.

Requirements

• A Master's or PhD-level computer science student or recent grad, or someone with equivalent depth. 

• A real programmer with research instincts. You've done work where the answer wasn't known in advance.

• An understanding of bleeding edge bot detection and fraud strategies, and you want to learn more.

• You are deep in the browser. You know JavaScript from the inside, and you're comfortable or could learn Chromium internals and internet protocols.

• Independent and relentlessly curious. You're at your best pulling apart how something works, not waiting for direction. 

What this role is (and isn't)

This role is:

Original research, not just implementation. You generate the ideas and prove them out; our engineers build them.

Deeply independent. You'll set your own research direction and drive it.

Genuinely hard. This is a frontier problem with no answer key, built for someone who wants to disrupt how things work, not follow a plan.

High potential for a return offer and full time role if your signal measurably extend detection.

This role is not:

A general software-engineering internship, or a role with a set checklist to execute.

A fit if you wait to be told what to do, or lose interest when a problem is wide open.

A slow ramp. You'll be expected to grasp the codebase and start contributing real ideas within your first few weeks, not months.

Bonus Points if (this is for things that are NICE to have, but not needed)

• You've contributed to the Chromium project or other open-source browser or security work.

• Prior research in bot detection, anti-fraud, anti-spoofing, or adversarial ML.

• You've published or presented original technical research

What You'll Gain

• Real ownership of original research on GeoComply's fraud and detection frontier, evaluated by the people who lead it.

• A rare thing for a student: fundamental computer-science research that ships, and pays.

• A genuine path to a full-time offer if your output is strong.

• Mentorship from the BrowserGuard team, working in-office in Vancouver alongside senior engineers.

• Room for Growth: We think young talent has so much to offer. Your work will have a meaningful impact on your team and the organization, and will allow you to grow your skills, network, and career.