Incident Response Analyst - AI Trainer

mercor; United States; Remote; USD 172,000 - 241,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking a Cybersecurity Practitioner for Paid Expert Interviews (SOC, Incident Response, Detection, AppSec). This remote contract role pays $125–$175 per hour and involves participating in scheduled one-hour interviews over a four-week period with Mercor's team.

Ideal candidates have current or recent enterprise security experience, including SOC/IR/engineer roles, and familiarity with EDR and SIEM stacks such as CrowdStrike, Defender, and Splunk.

Qualifications

• Current or recent experience in enterprise security roles such as SOC analysts, incident responders, or security engineers.
• Experience with EDR and SIEM stacks like CrowdStrike Falcon, Microsoft Defender, Splunk, or similar.

Responsibilities

• Participate in two to three one-hour video conversations with the Mercor team over four weeks.
• Discuss the tools and processes used in enterprise cyber defense work.
• Evaluate how AI assistance currently impacts your work and suggest improvements for AI benchmarks.
• Review and provide feedback on our draft task taxonomy for accuracy and relevance.
• Share insights on measuring the effectiveness of triage, investigation, and other security tasks.

Skills

SOC experience

Incident response

Security engineering

Tools

EDR

SIEM (CrowdStrike, Defender, Splunk)

Job description

About the job

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco, our investors include Benchmark , General Catalyst , Peter Thiel , Adam D'Angelo , Larry Summers , and Jack Dorsey .

Position: Cybersecurity Practitioner: Paid Expert Interviews (SOC, Incident Response, Detection, AppSec)

Type: Contract

Compensation: $125–$175/hour

Location: Remote

Role Responsibilities

• Participate in two to three one-hour video conversations with the Mercor team over four weeks.


• Discuss the tools and processes used in enterprise cyber defense work.


• Evaluate how AI assistance currently impacts your work and suggest improvements for AI benchmarks.


• Review and provide feedback on our draft task taxonomy for accuracy and relevance.


• Share insights on measuring the effectiveness of triage, investigation, and other security tasks.

Qualifications Must-Have

• Current or recent experience in enterprise security roles such as SOC analysts, incident responders, or security engineers.


• Experience with EDR and SIEM stacks like CrowdStrike Falcon , Microsoft Defender , Splunk , or similar.

Preferred

• Security leaders with hands-on experience in cyber defense work.

Compensation & Legal

• Paid hourly for interview time as a spot bonus.