Cybersecurity Research Expert – Offensive Security, Vulnerability Research
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Cybersecurity research expert evaluating frontier AI systems’ exploit analyses and vulnerability reasoning. Providing structured feedback and benchmarks for advanced AI security capabilities.
Responsibilities:
- 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
- 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
Requirements:
- Highly accomplished cybersecurity research expertise
- Strong track record in offensive security research and publicly recognised technical contributions
- Multiple qualifying credentials, such as top-ranked CTF team membership, CVE discovery or co-authorship, recognised bug bounty research, security laboratory or academic research experience, or high-quality security research publications and 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 preferred
- Experience with reverse engineering tools such as IDA Pro, Ghidra, Binary Ninja, or Radare2 preferred
- Familiarity with fuzzing, symbolic execution, static analysis, or dynamic analysis frameworks preferred
- Experience with Linux internals, Windows internals, browser security, cloud security, embedded security, or mobile security preferred
- Strong programming skills in C/C++, Rust, Python, Go, or Java preferred
- Excellent written communication and ability to explain complex security concepts clearly preferred
- Hall of Fame recognition from major bug bounty programs nice to have
- Black Hat, DEF CON, USENIX Security, IEEE S&P, ACM CCS, NDSS, or similar conference presentations/publications nice to have
- Maintainer or significant contributor to well-known open-source security tools nice to have
- Offensive Security certifications such as OSCP, OSEP, OSCE3, GIAC certifications, or equivalent credentials nice to have
- Unable to support H1-B or STEM OPT candidates
Benefits:
- Fully remote role
- Flexible schedule / work on your own schedule
- Weekly payments via Stripe or Wise based on services rendered
- Projects may be extended, shortened, or concluded early depending on needs and performance
- Competitive pay
- Collaboration with leading researchers
- Referral rewards of 20% of a referral's earnings across all their projects on Mercor, subject to restrictions and an earnings cap
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