Application Security Analyst

Alignerr Corp.; Cape Town; Remote; ZAR 917,000 - 2,063,000; Part time

Job summary

Alignerr is a remote, flexible contract role where your real-world application security knowledge shapes how AI understands and reasons about risk. You will analyze security scenarios spanning code, APIs, and live system behavior to classify vulnerabilities and evaluate secure coding practices.

With 2+ years in application or software security and a solid grasp of OWASP Top 10, you will explain risk clearly in written form and work asynchronously on task-based assignments.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of hands-on experience in application, product, or software security.
• Strong familiarity with the OWASP Top 10 and real production vulnerabilities.
• Ability to explain severity and impact with clear, structured reasoning.
• Excellent written communication and async, self-directed work approach.

Responsibilities

• Analyze security scenarios across code, APIs, and live systems.
• Classify and prioritize vulnerabilities including auth, injection, and business logic risks.
• Evaluate secure coding practices and remediation strategies.
• Develop security-focused datasets to train AI risk assessment.
• Distinguish genuine exploitability from theoretical noise with practitioner insight.

Skills

Hands-on security

OWASP Top 10 familiarity

Risk assessment & explanation

Written communication

Async work

Job description

Application Security Analyst (AI Training)

Your ability to spot what actually breaks in production — not just what looks bad on paper — is exactly what the next generation of AI needs. At Alignerr, we partner with leading AI research labs to build models that reason about software security the way experienced practitioners do. That means we need people who've lived in the trenches of application security: people who can tell the difference between a critical auth flaw and a theoretical edge case.

This is a remote, flexible contract role where your real-world security knowledge directly shapes how AI understands and reasons about application risk.

• Organization: Alignerr
• Type: Hourly Contract
• Location: Remote
• Commitment: 10–40 hours/week

What You'll Do

• Analyze realistic application security scenarios spanning code, APIs, and live system behavior
• Classify and prioritize vulnerabilities — authentication flaws, injection risks, business logic abuse, and more
• Evaluate the quality of secure coding practices and proposed remediation strategies
• Build and validate security-focused reasoning datasets that teach AI to assess application risk accurately
• Apply your practitioner instincts to distinguish genuine exploitability from theoretical noise

Who You Are

• 2+ years of hands-on experience in application, product, or software security
• Strong familiarity with the OWASP Top 10 and common vulnerabilities found in real production systems
• Able to reason about risk in context — not just flag issues, but explain severity and impact clearly
• Confident written communicator who can articulate structured security thinking
• Self-directed and comfortable working asynchronously on task-based assignments

Nice to Have

• Experience with penetration testing, code review, or bug bounty programs
• Background in secure SDLC, threat modeling, or developer security education
• Familiarity with AI systems or data annotation workflows

Why Join Us

• Work on frontier AI projects alongside top research labs
• Fully remote and flexible — you set your own schedule
• Freelance perks: autonomy, variety, and collaboration with a global expert community
• Make a lasting impact on how AI reasons about security — at scale
• Potential for ongoing work and contract extension