Mercor
Cybersecurity Research Expert – Offensive Security & Vulnerability Research
- Pay
- $200–250/hr
- Type
- Part-time
- Location
- Remote
- Posted
- Aug 4, 2026
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About this role
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. Ideal Background We are looking for…
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