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Cybersecurity Expert SOC Specialist

$125 - $175 per hour
Full-time

Mercor

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 DAngelo Larry Summers and Jack Dorsey .

Position: Cybersecurity Practitioner: Paid Expert Interviews (SOC Incident Response Detection AppSec)

Type: Contract

Compensation: $125$175/hour

Location: Remote

Role Responsibilities

  • Participate in two to three one-hour video conversations with the Mercor team over four weeks.
  • Discuss the tools and processes used in enterprise cyber defense work.
  • Evaluate how AI assistance currently impacts your work and suggest improvements for AI benchmarks.
  • Review and provide feedback on our draft task taxonomy for accuracy and relevance.
  • Share insights on measuring the effectiveness of triage investigation and other security tasks.

Qualifications

Must-Have

  • Current or recent experience in enterprise security roles such as SOC analysts incident responders or security engineers.
  • Experience with EDR and SIEM stacks like CrowdStrike Falcon Microsoft Defender Splunk or similar.

Preferred

  • Security leaders with hands-on experience in cyber defense work.

Compensation & Legal

  • Paid hourly for interview time as a spot bonus.

Application Process (Takes 2030 mins to complete)

  • Upload resume
  • AI interview based on your resume
  • Submit form

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PS: Our team reviews applications daily. Please complete your AI interview and application steps to be considered for this opportunity.

Vacancy posted 6 days ago
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