AI Security Researcher: Offensive & Defensive Expert

Mercor; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking Cybersecurity Research Experts to evaluate AI security systems, assess exploits, and analyze vulnerability reports. You will review writeups, validate root-cause analyses across software, OS, networking, cloud, and web apps, and provide feedback on reasoning and defenses.

Ideal candidates have demonstrated CTF success, public bug bounty findings, and reputable security publications, with strong skills in exploit development and related tooling.

Qualifications

• CTF achievements or similar competitive security credentials.
• Publicly recognised bug bounty findings with major programs.
• Author of high-quality security research works or papers.
• Experience in exploit development and vulnerability research.
• Familiarity with security benchmarking and evaluation tasks.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate AI-generated analyses of cybersecurity scenarios, exploits, and reports.
• Review technical writeups for correctness, exploitability, and mitigation accuracy.
• Validate root-cause analyses across software, OS, networks, cloud, and web apps.
• Provide structured feedback on security reasoning, exploit chains, and defenses.
• Contribute to benchmarks for advanced AI security capabilities.

Skills

CTF achievements

Bug bounty research

Public security publications

Exploit development

Security benchmarks

Tools

IDA Pro

Ghidra

Binary Ninja

Radare2

Job description

Mercor is seeking Cybersecurity Research Experts to evaluate AI security systems, assess exploits, and analyze vulnerability reports. You will review writeups, validate root-cause analyses across software, OS, networking, cloud, and web apps, and provide feedback on reasoning and defenses.

Ideal candidates have demonstrated CTF success, public bug bounty findings, and reputable security publications, with strong skills in exploit development and related tooling.