Cybersecurity Expert - Offensive Security

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Responsibilities

• ▹Evaluate AI-generated analyses of complex cybersecurity scenarios, exploits and vulnerability reports
• ▹Review technical writeups for correctness, exploitability and mitigation quality
• ▹Validate vulnerability root-cause analysis across software, operating systems, networking, cloud and web applications
• ▹Provide structured feedback on security reasoning, exploit chains and defensive recommendations
• ▹Contribute to benchmark development for advanced AI security capabilities

Requirements

• ▹Member of a top-ranked Capture The Flag (CTF) team with demonstrated competitive achievements
• ▹Discoverer or co-author of CVEs affecting widely used open-source or commercial software
• ▹Publicly recognised bug bounty researcher with findings accepted by major programs
• ▹Research experience at a respected security laboratory or academic research group
• ▹Author of security research publications, conference papers or widely cited technical writeups
• ▹Strong understanding of exploit development, reverse engineering, binary analysis or cryptography

Nice to have

• ▹Professional experience in offensive security, application security, vulnerability research or product security
• ▹Experience with reverse engineering tools such as IDA Pro, Ghidra, Binary Ninja or Radare2
• ▹Familiarity with fuzzing, symbolic execution, static or dynamic analysis frameworks
• ▹Experience with Linux internals, Windows internals, browser, cloud, embedded or mobile security
• ▹Strong programming skills in C/C++, Rust, Python, Go or Java
• ▹Hall of Fame recognition from major bug bounty programs
• ▹Conference presentations or publications at Black Hat, DEF CON, USENIX Security, IEEE S&P, ACM CCS or NDSS
• ▹Maintainer or significant contributor to well-known open-source security tools
• ▹Offensive Security (OSCP, OSEP, OSCE3) or GIAC certifications

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Compensation of $200-250 per hour
• ▹Fully remote, contract engagement

About the company

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs; it is headquartered in San Francisco and backed by investors including Benchmark, General Catalyst, Peter Thiel, Adam D'Angelo, Larry Summers and Jack Dorsey.