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Software Engineer (Cybersecurity) - Remote
Pay: $60 - $70 per hour Type: Hourly contract Location: Remote Commitment: 15-25 hours/week (flexible up to 40)
About the Role
Mercor is hiring Software Engineers specialized in Cybersecurity for a remote role supporting advanced AI research projects focused on secure coding, vulnerability analysis, and real-world software tasks.
You will work on SWE-bench–style tasks based on real open-source repositories, helping train AI systems to understand secure software engineering, exploit detection, and patch validation.
Responsibilities
- Design vulnerability-based benchmark tasks
- Create small runnable repositories
- Validate exploits
- Verify patches
- Annotate reasoning steps behind secure coding decisions
- Review task quality
- Confirm fixes
- Document impact, severity, and remediation details
Requirements
- 2+ years of software engineering experience with cybersecurity, application security, or vulnerability research
- Strong coding skills in Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, or similar languages
- Experience with Git workflows
- Ability to explain technical reasoning clearly
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Ideal for developers interested in AI, security, open-source, and advanced software engineering research.