AlignerrCybersecurity
Offensive Security Analyst (Structured / Non-Exploit)
up to $60/hr
About this role, in Alignerr's words
What if your hard-won knowledge of how attackers think, move, and succeed could directly shape the AI systems that millions of people will rely on to stay secure?
What you'll do
- Analyze realistic attack paths, kill chains, and adversary strategies across modern systems and environments
- Identify and classify weaknesses, misconfigurations, and defensive gaps in structured scenarios
- Review red-team-style narratives and intrusion scenarios for accuracy, realism, and completeness
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- Generate, label, and validate adversarial reasoning data used to train and evaluate AI models
- Clearly articulate attack chains, business impact, and security tradeoffs in written form
- Work independently and asynchronously — fully on your own schedule
Candidate background
Who You Are
- 2+ years of hands-on experience in pentesting, red teaming, or a blue-team role with deep offensive knowledge
- You understand how real attacks unfold in production environments — not just in theory
- You can break down a complex attack chain and explain it clearly to a technical audience
- You think in terms of attacker objectives, not just individual techniques
- Naturally detail-oriented with a structured, methodical approach to analysis
- Comfortable producing written assessments and structured data outputs
Nice to Have
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- Familiarity with frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK, Cyber Kill Chain, or STRIDE
- Experience writing threat models, attack narratives, or red team reports
- Background in threat intelligence, security architecture review, or purple teaming
- Exposure to cloud, OT/ICS, or enterprise network environments
- Prior experience contributing to AI or data labeling projects
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Full job descriptionThe original posting, in Alignerr's words
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Offensive Security Analyst (Structured / Non-Exploit)
About the Role
What if your hard-won knowledge of how attackers think, move, and succeed could directly shape the AI systems that millions of people will rely on to stay secure?
We're looking for Offensive Security Analysts to bring real-world adversarial thinking to frontier AI development. This isn't a traditional red team gig — there's no exploit development, no active intrusion, and no CVE hunting. Instead, you'll apply your deep understanding of attack paths, kill chains, and adversary behavior to help train and evaluate AI systems that reason about cybersecurity at a high level.
This is a fully remote, flexible contract role. If you think like an attacker and can articulate how threats unfold in production environments, we want to hear from you.
- Organization: Alignerr - Type: Hourly Contract - Location: Remote - Commitment: 10–40 hours/week
What You'll Do
* Analyze realistic attack paths, kill chains, and adversary strategies across modern systems and environments * Identify and classify weaknesses, misconfigurations, and defensive gaps in structured scenarios * Review red-team-style narratives and intrusion scenarios for accuracy, realism, and completeness * Generate, label, and validate adversarial reasoning data used to train and evaluate AI models * Clearly articulate attack chains, business impact, and security tradeoffs in written form * Work independently and asynchronously — fully on your own schedule
Who You Are
* 2+ years of hands-on experience in pentesting, red teaming, or a blue-team role with deep offensive knowledge * You understand how real attacks unfold in production environments — not just in theory * You can break down a complex attack chain and explain it clearly to a technical audience * You think in terms of attacker objectives, not just individual techniques * Naturally detail-oriented with a structured, methodical approach to analysis * Comfortable producing written assessments and structured data outputs
Nice to Have
* Familiarity with frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK, Cyber Kill Chain, or STRIDE * Experience writing threat models, attack narratives, or red team reports * Background in threat intelligence, security architecture review, or purple teaming * Exposure to cloud, OT/ICS, or enterprise network environments * Prior experience contributing to AI or data labeling projects
Why Join Us
* Work directly on frontier AI systems alongside leading 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 offensive security expertise to a genuinely novel and high-impact problem space * Potential for ongoing work and contract extension as new projects launch
Working with AlignerrPay, getting started and work, from Alignerr's own pages
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- Getting paid
- Billed weekly, Monday to Sunday, with approved work paid by the following Friday, according to Labelbox's help center. Payment goes through Stripe Connect or PayPal depending on your location, with one provider per country. intercom.help/labelbox/en/articles/13600616-alignerr-paym..., alignerr.com/process
- Before your first paid task
- Sign up, apply, verify your identity, set up billing and onboard. Some jobs add a Zara AI interview or domain assessments. alignerr.com/process
- How much work
- Time to your first project depends on demand and your skills, and there is no minimum number of hours. alignerr.com/faqs
- Contract
- Independent contractor, under terms with ALIGNERR LLC. alignerr.com/faqs, alignerr.com/privacy
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How does the pay compare?Across Cybersecurity roles, not this role alone
From our own daily reads of every open listing on the platforms we follow, not from Alignerr's posting. How we count.
Pay across the field: Cybersecurity
Across 54 roles in this field with a stated hourly rate in US dollars, on 10 platforms, the middle half pays $60 to $120 an hour at the top of the range, and the median is $90. This role's top rate, $60, is in the middle half. Of the 27 distinct rates we count, 2 are lower and 20 are higher.
| Platform | Roles | Top of range, per hour |
|---|---|---|
| Alignerr (this platform) | 31 | $55 to $120 · median $60 |
| Mercor | 4 | $90 to $250 |
| micro1 | 4 | $95 to $175 |
| AfterQuery | 4 | $75 to $135 |
| DataAnnotation | 3 | $125 |
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- First seen here on 27 Aug 2026, and still on Alignerr's list when we last read it on 13 Oct 2026.
- The listed pay has not changed since then.
- Posted by Alignerr
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- Last seen live
- Listing ID
- 01d0f9c2-2fcf-429e-bc53-f72657f5031b
Pay as the source states it: “$40-60/hr”.
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