Cybersecurity Expert - Offensive Security

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: Cybersecurity Research Expert – Offensive Security & Vulnerability Research Type: Contract Compensation: $200–$250/hour Location: Remote Role 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 independently and asynchronously to meet deadlines while improving AI model performance . Qualifications Must-Have 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, GitHub, Mozilla, Chromium, Kubernetes, Linux Foundation, etc.). Research experience at a well-respected security laboratory or academic research group . 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. Preferred 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 Radare2 . Fam