Security Engineer - AI Coding Agent
$85 per hourMercor
Job Description
Job Description
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
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 .
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.
Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)
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- Submit form
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Vacancy posted 7 days ago
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