Security Engineer - Fully Remote | Upto $85/hr

Role Summary

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: Security Engineer (Coding Agent Experience)
• Type: Contract
• Compensation: $85/hour
• Location: Remote
• Role Responsibilities

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 .

Requirements

• 2+ years of professional security engineering experience.
• Experience with application security , cloud security , infrastructure security , or vulnerability management .
• Regular use of AI coding agents such as Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Windsurf, or Gemini CLI.
• Ability to identify flaws in model-generated code and architectures.

Preferred

• Experience securing production systems.
• Compensation & Legal
• $400 per accepted task .
• Compensation is tied to accepted work.
• Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)
• Upload resume
• AI interview based on your resume
• Submit form
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