Cybersecurity Research Specialist
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Cybersecurity research specialist evaluating AI-generated vulnerability, exploit, and defensive-security reasoning for 24-MAG. Developing expert benchmarks for advanced AI cybersecurity capabilities.
Responsibilities:
- Evaluate technical analyses of complex software vulnerabilities and security scenarios
- Validate vulnerability root causes across software, operating systems, networks, cloud environments, and web applications
- Assess exploitability, technical feasibility, prerequisites, and security assumptions
- Review AI-generated exploit analyses and multi-stage attack reasoning
- Evaluate reverse engineering, binary analysis, memory corruption, application security, and offensive-security reasoning
- Critique exploit chains and identify weaknesses or inconsistencies
- Assess defensive recommendations, mitigation strategies, and secure software engineering guidance
- Review security reasoning across operating-system, network, web, cloud, browser, mobile, and embedded-security contexts
- Provide structured written feedback explaining technical evaluation decisions
- Contribute to structured benchmarks for advanced AI cybersecurity capabilities
- Develop or refine evaluation criteria and technical evaluation rubrics
- Identify security scenarios that test advanced reasoning capabilities
- Help establish consistent standards for evaluating complex cybersecurity outputs
Requirements:
- Strong professional or research background in offensive security, vulnerability research, exploit development, application security, product security, or security engineering
- Demonstrated expertise across multiple areas including reverse engineering, binary analysis, vulnerability research, operating systems, networks, web security, or cryptography
- Multiple recognised technical achievements, such as competitive CTF performance, published CVEs, major bug-bounty findings, security research publications, or significant public technical contributions
- Experience identifying or analysing vulnerabilities affecting widely used open-source or commercial software
- Familiarity with reverse-engineering tools such as IDA Pro, Ghidra, Binary Ninja, Radare2, or comparable platforms
- Experience with fuzzing, symbolic execution, static analysis, dynamic analysis, or related vulnerability-discovery techniques
- Strong programming ability in C/C++, Rust, Python, Go, or Java
- Ability to communicate complex cybersecurity concepts clearly and precisely in writing
- Experience within a recognised security research laboratory, academic research group, product-security team, or equivalent industry environment is highly valued
- Conference publications or presentations at venues such as Black Hat, DEF CON, USENIX Security, IEEE S&P, ACM CCS, NDSS, or comparable events are highly valued
- Contributions to established open-source security tools or recognised bug-bounty programmes are advantageous
- Relevant advanced security certifications may also be considered
- Work must be completed without using confidential or proprietary information belonging to any employer, client, institution, or other third party
- H1-B and STEM OPT support is unavailable for this engagement
Benefits:
- Fully remote independent contractor engagement
- Flexible scheduling based on project requirements
- Engagements may be extended, shortened, or concluded based on project needs and performance
- Strong contributors may be considered for additional cybersecurity evaluation projects
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