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Remote Cybersecurity Research Expert – Offensive Security & Vulnerability Research - AI Trainer
Remote / Online - Candidates ideally in
San Diego, San Diego County, California, 92101, USA
Listed on 2026-08-26
San Diego, San Diego County, California, 92101, USA
Listing for:
Mercor
Remote/Work from Home
position Listed on 2026-08-26
Job specializations:
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IT/Tech
Cybersecurity, Security Management & Operations
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Job description We're looking for highly accomplished Cybersecurity Research Experts to help evaluate cutting-edge AI systems in advanced security reasoning, vulnerability analysis, exploit development, and secure software engineering. This project is ideal for practitioners with a strong track record in offensive security research and publicly recognised technical contributions.
What You'll Do- Evaluate AI-generated analyses of complex cybersecurity scenarios, exploits, and vulnerability reports.
- Review technical writeups for correctness, exploitability, and mitigation quality.
- Validate vulnerability root-cause analysis across software, operating systems, networking, cloud, and web applications.
- Provide structured feedback on security reasoning, exploit chains, and defensive recommendations.
- Contribute to benchmark development for advanced AI security capabilities.
- Member of a top-ranked Capture The Flag (CTF) team with demonstrated competitive achievements.
- Discoverer or co-author of CVEs affecting widely used open-source or commercial software.
- Publicly recognised bug bounty researcher with findings accepted by major programs (e.g., Google, Microsoft, Apple, Meta, Git Hub, Mozilla, Chromium, Kubernetes, Linux Foundation, etc.).
- Research experience at a well-respected security laboratory or academic research group (e.g., KAIST Security Lab, SSLab, university security research groups, or equivalent industry research organisations).
- Author of high-quality security research publications
, conference papers, or widely cited technical writeups. - Strong understanding of exploit development, reverse engineering, binary analysis, vulnerability research, operating systems, networks, web security, or cryptography.
- Professional experience in offensive security, application security, vulnerability research, product security, or security engineering.
- Experience with reverse engineering tools such as IDA Pro, Ghidra, Binary Ninja, or Radare
2. - Familiarity with fuzzing, symbolic execution, static analysis, or dynamic analysis frameworks.
- Experience with Linux internals, Windows internals, browser security, cloud security, embedded security, or mobile security.
- Strong programming skills in C/C++, Rust, Python, Go, or Java.
- Excellent written communication and ability to explain complex security concepts clearly.
- Hall of Fame recognition from major bug bounty programs.
- Black Hat, DEF CON, USENIX Security, IEEE S&P, ACM CCS, NDSS, or similar conference presentations/publications.
- Maintainer or significant contributor to well-known open-source security tools.
- Offensive Security certifications (OSCP, OSEP, OSCE3), GIAC certifications, or equivalent credentials.
- Work on frontier AI models tackling real-world cybersecurity problems.
- Collaborate with leading researchers on advanced security evaluation tasks.
- Help shape the next generation of AI systems for cybersecurity.
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