Cyber Defense Practitioner - Remote Research Interview

HumanitApp; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 172,000 - 241,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Spot bonus

Hourly pay

Remote work

Job summary

Mercor is seeking input from hands-on security professionals for a short, paid research engagement. You will join two to three one-hour video conversations over roughly four weeks, with sessions scheduled around your availability. Compensation is hourly, and participation requires discussing patterns rather than confidential incidents.

Remote, US-based engagement with flexibility; no prep work is required and the final rate will be confirmed during the official process.

Qualifications

• Hands-on practitioners in enterprise security (SOC, IR, threat hunting, app security).
• Experience with EDR and SIEM stacks preferred.
• Willingness to discuss patterns without disclosing confidential info.

Responsibilities

• Participate in brief video conversations about real-world workflows.
• Share how you measure triage, investigations, containment and patching success.
• Provide input on AI assistance and benchmark task taxonomy.

Skills

SOC analysts

SOC leads

Incident responders

Threat hunters

Red team experience

Application security engineers

Tools

CrowdStrike Falcon

Microsoft Defender

SentinelOne

Splunk

Sentinel

Elastic

Job description

Mercor is seeking input from hands-on security professionals for a short, paid research engagement. You will join two to three one-hour video conversations over roughly four weeks, with sessions scheduled around your availability. Compensation is hourly, and participation requires discussing patterns rather than confidential incidents.

Remote, US-based engagement with flexibility; no prep work is required and the final rate will be confirmed during the official process.