Security Engineer - Fully Remote
Remote / Online - Candidates ideally in
San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, 94199, USA
Listed on 2026-10-12
San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, 94199, USA
Listing for:
mercor
Remote/Work from Home
position Listed on 2026-10-12
Job specializations:
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Software Development
Job Description & How to Apply Below
About the job Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco, our investors include Benchmark , General Catalyst , Peter Thiel , Adam D'Angelo , Larry Summers , and Jack Dorsey . Position:
Security Engineer (Coding Agent Experience) Type:
Contract Compensation: $85/hour
Location:
Remote
- Use frontier AI coding agents to complete and evaluate complex security engineering tasks .
- Review model-generated code and architectures for vulnerabilities and security risks.
- Identify bugs, edge cases, and security-related failure modes.
- Compare outputs from multiple frontier models to assess strengths and weaknesses.
- Apply professional engineering judgment to realistic security engineering scenarios .
- Work independently and asynchronously to meet deadlines while improving AI model performance .
- 2+ years of professional security engineering experience.
- Experience with application security , cloud security , infrastructure security , or vulnerability management .
- Regular use of AI coding agents such as Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Windsurf, or Gemini CLI.
- Ability to identify flaws in model-generated code and architectures.
- Experience securing production systems.
- $400 per accepted task .
- Compensation is tied to accepted work.
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