About the Role
What if your instinct for how attacks unfold — the lateral movement, the missed detection, the cascading failure — could directly shape how the world's most advanced AI systems understand cybersecurity?
We're looking for experienced offensive and defensive security professionals to analyze real-world attack scenarios, model adversary behavior, and help build the adversarial reasoning data that trains and evaluates cutting-edge AI. This role is about structured threat thinking — not writing exploits.
This is a fully remote, flexible contract role. If you can map a kill chain, identify where defenses collapse, and explain it clearly, we want to hear from you.
- Organization: Alignerr
- Type: Hourly Contract
- Location: Remote
- Commitment: 10–40 hours/week
What You'll Do
- Analyze attack paths, kill chains, and adversary strategies across realistic, production-grade environments
- Identify weaknesses, misconfigurations, and defensive gaps that real threat actors exploit
- Review red team scenarios and intrusion narratives for accuracy, depth, and adversarial realism
- Generate, label, and validate adversarial reasoning data used to train and evaluate AI systems
- Clearly articulate how attacks unfold, what their impact is, and what tradeoffs defenders face
- Work independently and asynchronously on task-based assignments
Who You Are
- 2+ years of hands-on experience in pentesting, red teaming, or a blue-team role with deep attack knowledge
- You understand how real attacks move through production environments — not just in theory
- You can trace an attack from initial access to impact and explain every step clearly
- Strong written communicator — you can break down complex threat scenarios for varied audiences
- Detail-oriented, systematic, and comfortable working independently without close supervision
- No exploit development required — this role is about analysis and reasoning, not writing shellcode
Nice to Have
- Familiarity with frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK, Cyber Kill Chain, or similar threat modeling methodologies
- Experience with cloud environments, Active Directory, or enterprise network architectures
- Background in threat intelligence, incident response, or detection engineering
- Prior experience creating or reviewing security training content
- Certifications such as OSCP, CEH, GPEN, GWAPT, or equivalent
Why Join Us
- Work directly on frontier AI systems alongside leading AI research labs
- Fully remote and flexible — work when and where it suits you
- Freelance autonomy with the structure of meaningful, task-based work
- Apply your hard-earned security expertise to a domain that's actively shaping the future of AI
- Potential for ongoing work and contract extension as new projects launch