Offensive Security Analyst

Alignerr; Remote; ZAR 200 000 - 300 000; Part time

Job summary

A cutting-edge AI security firm is seeking an Offensive Security Analyst to analyze attack paths and adversary strategies. The ideal candidate will have over 2 years of experience in pentesting, red team, or a strong blue-team role. Responsibilities include classifying weaknesses and helping to generate data for AI systems evaluation. This is a remote position with competitive pay ranging from $40 to $60/hour and flexible hours between 10 to 40 hours per week.

Benefits

Competitive pay

Flexibility

Global collaboration

Potential for contract extension

Qualifications

• 2+ years in pentesting, red team, or a strong blue-team role with hands-on attack knowledge.
• Understand how real attacks unfold in production environments.
• Ability to clearly explain attack chains, impact, and tradeoffs.

Responsibilities

• Analyze attack paths, kill chains, and adversary strategies across real-world systems.
• Classify weaknesses, misconfigurations, and defensive gaps.
• Review red-team style scenarios and intrusion narratives.
• Help generate, label, and validate adversarial reasoning data used to train and evaluate AI systems.

Skills

Pentesting

Red team experience

Blue team experience

Job description

About The Job

At Alignerr, we partner with the world’s leading AI research teams and labs to build and train cutting‑edge AI models. This role focuses on structured adversarial reasoning rather than exploit development. You will work with realistic attack scenarios to model how threats move through systems, where defenses fail, and how risk propagates across modern environments.

Organization

Alignerr – Offensive Security Analyst (Structured / Non‑Exploit) – Contract / Task‑Based – $40–$60 /hour – Remote – 10–40 hours/week

What You’ll Do

• Analyze attack paths, kill chains, and adversary strategies across real‑world systems
• Classify weaknesses, misconfigurations, and defensive gaps
• Review red‑team style scenarios and intrusion narratives
• Help generate, label, and validate adversarial reasoning data used to train and evaluate AI systems

What We’re Looking For

• 2+ years in pentesting, red team, or a strong blue‑team role with hands‑on attack knowledge
• Understand how real attacks unfold in production environments
• Ability to clearly explain attack chains, impact, and tradeoffs

Why Join Us

• Competitive pay and flexible remote work.
• Work directly on frontier AI systems.
• Freelance perks: autonomy, flexibility, and global collaboration.
• Potential for contract extension.

Application Process (Takes 10–15 min)

• Submit your resume
• Complete a short screening
• Project matching and onboarding

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