AlignerrCybersecurity
Data Security & DLP Analyst
up to $60/hr
About this role, in Alignerr's words
Data breaches don't happen in textbooks — they happen in cloud misconfigurations, shadow IT, and miscategorized sensitive files. At Alignerr, we partner with the world's leading AI research labs to build models that genuinely understand how data risk works in the real world.
What you'll do
- Analyze realistic data security and DLP scenarios across cloud, SaaS, and enterprise environments
- Classify data sensitivity levels, exposure pathways, and policy violations
- Evaluate prevention, detection, and incident response strategies for accuracy and completeness
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- Generate, label, and validate data security cases used to train and benchmark AI models
- Apply your knowledge of real-world data risk to help AI reason more accurately about sensitive information
Candidate background
Who You Are
- 2+ years of experience in data security, compliance, or security operations
- Familiar with DLP tools, data classification frameworks, and privacy or regulatory concepts (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA, CCPA)
- Practical understanding of how data risk plays out across modern enterprise environments
- Able to think critically about edge cases, gray areas, and real-world policy enforcement challenges
- Self-directed and comfortable working independently on task-based assignments
Nice to Have
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- Experience with cloud DLP tools (e.g., Microsoft Purview, Google CASB, Netskope, Symantec DLP)
- Background in security operations, incident response, or compliance auditing
- Familiarity with AI evaluation or data annotation workflows
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Data Security & DLP Analyst (AI Training)
About the Role
Data breaches don't happen in textbooks — they happen in cloud misconfigurations, shadow IT, and miscategorized sensitive files. At Alignerr, we partner with the world's leading AI research labs to build models that genuinely understand how data risk works in the real world.
We're looking for experienced data security and DLP professionals to help us do that. Your hands-on knowledge of how sensitive information is exposed, detected, and protected will directly shape the reasoning capabilities of next-generation AI systems.
This is a remote, flexible contract role — you set your hours and work on your own schedule.
- Organization: Alignerr - Type: Hourly Contract - Location: Remote - Commitment: 10–40 hours/week
What You'll Do
* Analyze realistic data security and DLP scenarios across cloud, SaaS, and enterprise environments * Classify data sensitivity levels, exposure pathways, and policy violations * Evaluate prevention, detection, and incident response strategies for accuracy and completeness * Generate, label, and validate data security cases used to train and benchmark AI models * Apply your knowledge of real-world data risk to help AI reason more accurately about sensitive information
Who You Are
* 2+ years of experience in data security, compliance, or security operations * Familiar with DLP tools, data classification frameworks, and privacy or regulatory concepts (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA, CCPA) * Practical understanding of how data risk plays out across modern enterprise environments * Able to think critically about edge cases, gray areas, and real-world policy enforcement challenges * Self-directed and comfortable working independently on task-based assignments
Nice to Have
* Experience with cloud DLP tools (e.g., Microsoft Purview, Google CASB, Netskope, Symantec DLP) * Background in security operations, incident response, or compliance auditing * Familiarity with AI evaluation or data annotation workflows
Why Join Us
* Work directly on frontier AI systems alongside top research labs * Fully remote and asynchronous — work when and where it suits you * Freelance perks: autonomy, variety, and collaboration with a global expert community * Make a meaningful contribution to AI safety and responsible AI development * Potential for ongoing work and contract extension
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
- 03a9be40-66cc-43b4-8992-fcd2686db59e
Pay as the source states it: “$38-60/hr”.
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