Cybersecurity Expert (AI Training)

DataAnnotation; Ireland; Remote; EUR 74,000 - 154,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work

Remote work

Project-based

Job summary

DataAnnotation is seeking a Cybersecurity Expert to rigorously test frontier models for unsafe code and exploitable paths. You will rate a model’s security reasoning, distinguish theater from true defense, and document actionable judgments to improve future model safety.

The role emphasizes clear English explanations and a practical threat model focus. This is a flexible, remote opportunity with compensation reflecting task complexity and specialization.

Qualifications

• Professional experience in security engineering, defensive or offensive work.
• Ability to reason about real threats: authentication, crypto, injection, secret handling.
• Clear written English and ability to explain security concepts.
• Degree not required; demonstrable skills trump credentials.

Responsibilities

• Probe models for weak spots across authentication, crypto, input handling, and secret management, and identify where advice falls short.
• Rate security reasoning against real-world practice: identify theater, missing checks, and confident but flawed fixes.
• Write secure answers for gaps, detailing threat models and trade-offs.

Skills

Security engineering

Defensive operations

Offensive security

Threat modeling

Clear written English

Job description

Overview

Models will hand you code that looks secure and quietly ships a hardcoded secret, a broken auth check, or an injection the linter never flags. Someone has to tell security theater from an actual defense, and that someone is you.

Overview

Models will hand you code that looks secure and quietly ships a hardcoded secret, a broken auth check, or an injection the linter never flags. Someone has to tell security theater from an actual defense, and that someone is you.

As a Cybersecurity Expert you'll probe frontier models for unsafe code and exploit paths, rate how they reason about real threats, and write the judgments that teach the next generation what secure actually means.

What you’ll actually do

• Probe models for weak spots across authentication, crypto, input handling, and secret management, and see where their advice falls apart.
• Rate the security reasoning against real-world practice: catch the theater, the missing check, and the confidently wrong fix.
• Write the secure answer when the model falls short, with the threat model and the trade-offs spelled out.

Roles this fits

Common backgrounds: Security Engineer, Cyber Warfare Analyst.

What we look for

• Professional experience in security engineering, defensive operations, or offensive work.
• Comfort reasoning about real threats: authentication, crypto, injection, and secret handling.
• Clear written English: your explanations are the training signal.
• No degree required. We care about what you can do, not where you learned it.

Compensation

Up to $125+/hr depending on task difficulty and specialization. Many contributors add $100k–$200k a year; some make it their full-time income.

About DataAnnotation

DataAnnotation is where 1M+ experts train the world’s leading AI models. Hundreds of millions paid to contributors to date, and the average contributor stays 5+ years. Flexible, remote, and always project-available.