AI Security Engineer for Safe AI (Contract)

Empathy; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 83,000 - 165,000; Part time

Job summary

mpathic.ai is seeking cybersecurity experts to help train and evaluate the next generation of AI systems. You will design realistic cybersecurity prompts and assess AI-generated responses for accuracy and usefulness.

You will work with a multidisciplinary team to improve AI understanding of software security, cyber defense, and vulnerability research, shaping the safety and reliability of AI systems used by millions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or closely related field.
• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience at a high-growth startup or established tech company.

Responsibilities

• Design realistic, expert-level cybersecurity prompts spanning application security, network security, cloud infrastructure, vulnerability management, and secure software development.
• Evaluate AI-generated responses for technical accuracy, completeness, and practical usefulness.
• Assess how models handle sensitive and dual-use cybersecurity scenarios, ensuring responsible outputs.
• Apply structured evaluation rubrics to annotate prompts and model outputs with consistency and precision.
• Provide clear, actionable feedback to improve performance, safety, and reliability of frontier AI systems.

Skills

Software engineering experience

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/Cybersecurity

Job description

mpathic.ai is seeking cybersecurity experts to help train and evaluate the next generation of AI systems. You will design realistic cybersecurity prompts and assess AI-generated responses for accuracy and usefulness.

You will work with a multidisciplinary team to improve AI understanding of software security, cyber defense, and vulnerability research, shaping the safety and reliability of AI systems used by millions.