Incident Response Analyst for AI Security Training (Remote)

Alignerr Corp.; Cape Town; Remote; ZAR 551,000 - 909,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Autonomy

Variety

Global collaboration

Job summary

Alignerr is seeking an Incident Response Analyst to help train AI-driven cybersecurity tools. You will analyze realistic security events and incidents to validate outputs used in training data.

Remote, hourly contract with 10–40 hours/week and a flexible schedule. You’ll collaborate with AI researchers and security staff to ensure analyses reflect real-world operations and best practices.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of hands-on experience in SOC operations, incident response, or security operations.
• Proficient with SIEM platforms, alert queues, and digital investigation tooling.
• Detail-oriented with clear written communication.

Responsibilities

• Analyze security events, alerts, and incident cases to validate AI-generated outputs.
• Assess impact, root cause, and remediation paths for simulated and real-world scenarios.
• Evaluate the quality of detection rules, alerting pipelines, and investigative playbooks.
• Identify gaps where AI-generated incident analysis deviates from real-world security operations best practices.
• Provide structured, expert feedback that helps train and refine frontier AI models.
• Work independently and asynchronously on your own schedule.

Skills

SOC operations

Incident response

SIEM

Investigation tooling

Threat detection

Written communication

Tools

MITRE ATT&CK

NIST

PICERL

Job description

Alignerr is seeking an Incident Response Analyst to help train AI-driven cybersecurity tools. You will analyze realistic security events and incidents to validate outputs used in training data.

Remote, hourly contract with 10–40 hours/week and a flexible schedule. You’ll collaborate with AI researchers and security staff to ensure analyses reflect real-world operations and best practices.