Offensive Security Analyst (Structured / Non-Exploit)

Alignerr; Manchester; Remote; GBP 83,000 - 131,000; Part time

Job summary

Alignerr Corp. is seeking an experienced offensive security professional to train and evaluate frontier AI models.

You will analyze attack paths, kill chains, and adversary strategies across production environments, applying an attacker mindset to non-exploit tasks, with flexible remote hours. This freelance role offers 10–40 hours per week, asynchronous work, and the chance to shape security guidance used by AI systems.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of hands-on pentesting, red teaming, or blue-team role with deep attack-side knowledge.
• Solid understanding of how real attacks unfold across endpoints, networks, cloud environments, and identity systems.
• Able to map adversary behavior to frameworks like MITRE ATTACK and explain the 'why' behind attack decisions

Responsibilities

• Analyze realistic attack paths, kill chains, and adversary strategies across modern production environments
• Identify weaknesses, misconfigurations, and defensive gaps in system and network scenarios
• Review red-team-style intrusion narratives and evaluate their technical accuracy and completeness
• Generate, label, and validate adversarial reasoning data used to train and evaluate AI systems
• Articulate attack chains, blast radius, and risk tradeoffs in clear, structured written form

Skills

Offensive security

Threat modeling

MITRE ATT&CK

Clear communication

Job description

About The Role

What if your knowledge of how attacks unfold — how adversaries move, where defenses crack, and how risk cascades across modern infrastructure — could directly shape the AI systems that millions of people will rely on for security guidance?

About The Role

What if your knowledge of how attacks unfold — how adversaries move, where defenses crack, and how risk cascades across modern infrastructure — could directly shape the AI systems that millions of people will rely on for security guidance?

We're looking for offensive security professionals to apply their adversarial mindset to a new kind of challenge: training and evaluating frontier AI models. This role is about structured threat reasoning, not exploit development. If you can think like an attacker and explain it clearly, you're exactly who we need.

This is a fully remote, flexible contract role — work on your own schedule, on your own terms.

• Organization: Alignerr
• Type: Hourly Contract
• Location: Remote
• Commitment: 10–40 hours/week

What You'll Do

• Analyze realistic attack paths, kill chains, and adversary strategies across modern production environments
• Identify weaknesses, misconfigurations, and defensive gaps in system and network scenarios
• Review red-team-style intrusion narratives and evaluate their technical accuracy and completeness
• Generate, label, and validate adversarial reasoning data used to train and evaluate AI systems
• Articulate attack chains, blast radius, and risk tradeoffs in clear, structured written form
• Work independently and asynchronously — on your own schedule

Who You Are

• 2+ years of hands-on experience in pentesting, red teaming, or a blue-team role with deep attack-side knowledge
• Solid understanding of how real attacks unfold across endpoints, networks, cloud environments, and identity systems
• Able to map adversary behavior to frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK and explain the "why" behind attack decisions
• Clear, precise communicator — you can explain complex attack chains to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Detail-oriented and consistent when working through structured evaluation tasks

Nice to Have

• Experience with threat modeling, purple teaming, or adversary simulation exercises
• Familiarity with cloud attack surfaces (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Background in incident response or threat intelligence
• Certifications such as OSCP, GPEN, GWAPT, or equivalent real-world experience
• Prior exposure to AI tools or data labeling workflows

Why Join Us

• Work directly on frontier AI systems alongside leading AI research labs
• Fully remote and flexible — work when and where it suits you
• Freelance autonomy with the structure of meaningful, task-based work
• Apply your offensive security expertise in a novel, high-impact domain
• Potential for ongoing work and contract extension as new projects launch