Security Engineer: AI Coding Agent Specialist (Remote)

mercor; United States; Remote; USD 110.000 - 124.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Mercor, a San Francisco-based company connecting elite creative and technical talent with AI research labs, offers a remote contract Security Engineer (Coding Agent Experience) role. You will work with frontier AI coding agents to perform complex security tasks and review model-generated code for risks.

Ideal candidates have 2+ years of security engineering experience and familiarity with AI agents like Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Windsurf, or Gemini CLI. Remote work allowed.

Qualifikationen

• 2+ years of professional security engineering experience.
• Experience in application, cloud, or infrastructure security.
• Familiar with AI coding agents and model evaluation.

Aufgaben

• Use frontier AI coding agents to complete and evaluate complex security engineering tasks.
• Review model-generated code and architectures for vulnerabilities and security risks.
• Identify bugs, edge cases, and security-related failure modes.
• Compare outputs from multiple frontier models to assess strengths and weaknesses.
• Apply professional engineering judgment to realistic security engineering scenarios.
• Work independently and asynchronously to meet deadlines while improving AI model performance.

Kenntnisse

Security engineering

Threat modeling

Code review

Tools

Cursor

Claude Code

Codex

Windsurf

Gemini CLI

Jobbeschreibung

Mercor, a San Francisco-based company connecting elite creative and technical talent with AI research labs, offers a remote contract Security Engineer (Coding Agent Experience) role. You will work with frontier AI coding agents to perform complex security tasks and review model-generated code for risks.

Ideal candidates have 2+ years of security engineering experience and familiarity with AI agents like Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Windsurf, or Gemini CLI. Remote work allowed.