Browser Security Engineer Intern, (Fall 2026)
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About the Role
GeoComply is seeking a Browser Security Engineer Intern to conduct original research on browser-based bot detection. The intern will study how bots evade detection, invent new signals, and validate ideas against real customer data.
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Responsibilities
- Study how browser based bots evade current detection, working close to Chromium and JavaScript internals
- Form and test original hypotheses about what gives a bot away, producing net new detection signals
- Validate ideas against real customer data
- Hand best signals to engineering team in a form they can build and ship
Requirements
- Master's or PhD level computer science student or recent grad, or equivalent depth
- Real programmer with research instincts; experience where answer wasn't known in advance
- Understanding of bleeding edge bot detection and fraud strategies
- Deep knowledge of JavaScript from the inside, comfortable with Chromium internals and internet protocols
- Independent and relentlessly curious
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The Role
- This is a fundamental research role on our push to catch browser based bots.
- You'll generate and validate a body of net new detection signals over four months.
What You’ll do
- Study how browser based bots evade current detection, working close to Chromium and JavaScript internals.
- Form and test original hypotheses about what gives a bot away.
- Validate your ideas against real customer data.
- Hand your best signals to the engineering team.
- Embrace Stretch Opportunities: special high value projects outside immediate scope.
Requirements
- A Master's or PhD level computer science student or recent grad, or equivalent depth.
- A real programmer with research instincts.
- An understanding of bleeding edge bot detection and fraud strategies.
- Deep in the browser: JavaScript from the inside, comfortable with Chromium internals and internet protocols.
- Independent and relentlessly curious.
What this role is (and isn't)
- This role is original research, not just implementation.
- This role is deeply independent.
- This role is genuinely hard.
- This role is not a general software engineering internship.
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