AI Security Engineer - Offensive AI Benchmarking (Remote)

Terac; Redmond (WA); Remote; USD 170,000 - 243,000; Part time

Job summary

Terac is hiring offensive cybersecurity engineers to deliver long‑term hourly work focused on AI evaluation. You will design and implement complex security benchmarks and reinforcement learning environments to test frontier AI models remotely from the United States.

Ideal candidates have hands‑on experience in offensive security or penetration testing and familiarity with RL or AI evaluation frameworks. This role is a contract engagement with a $150/hour rate and requires US‑based applicants.

Qualifications

• Experience in offensive cybersecurity and penetration testing is required.
• Familiarity with reinforcement learning and AI evaluation frameworks is highly valued.
• Ability to design secure, testable benchmarks for AI systems.

Responsibilities

• Design and build offensive cybersecurity reinforcement learning environments.
• Harden benchmarks to withstand advanced AI interactions.
• Develop rigorous evaluation criteria for frontier AI models.
• Collaborate on long‑term hourly remote projects to iterate on security scenarios.

Skills

Offensive cybersecurity

Penetration testing

Security research

Reinforcement learning

AI evaluation

Job description

Terac is hiring offensive cybersecurity engineers to deliver long‑term hourly work focused on AI evaluation. You will design and implement complex security benchmarks and reinforcement learning environments to test frontier AI models remotely from the United States.

Ideal candidates have hands‑on experience in offensive security or penetration testing and familiarity with RL or AI evaluation frameworks. This role is a contract engagement with a $150/hour rate and requires US‑based applicants.