Security Engineer - Fully Remote · Upto $85/hr

About the job 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

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 .

Qualifications

Must-Have

• 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.