Security Engineer - Fully Remote | Upto $85/hr

About the Role

• Mercor is partnering with a leading AI research lab to support a Frontier Code Agents project.
• Contributors help evaluate and improve frontier AI coding models through structured technical assessments.
• The work focuses on realistic security engineering workflows and model evaluation.
• Spots are limited and filling quickly on a first come, first serve basis.

What You'll Do

• Use frontier AI coding agents to complete and evaluate complex security engineering tasks.
• Review model-generated code and architectures for vulnerabilities, security risks, and implementation flaws.
• Identify bugs, edge cases, and security-related failure modes.
• Compare outputs from multiple frontier models and assess their strengths and weaknesses.
• Apply professional engineering judgment to realistic security engineering scenarios.

Time Commitment

Sprint based project that runs in 12-24 hour stretches based on client requirement.

Compensation

• $400 per accepted task.
• Typical tasks take approximately 2–3 hours after ramp-up.
• Compensation is tied to accepted work.

Who Should Apply

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