AlignerrCybersecurity
Vulnerability Management Analyst
up to $60/hr
About this role, in Alignerr's words
We're looking for experienced vulnerability management and security operations professionals to help evaluate and improve cutting-edge AI systems. Your real-world expertise — triaging CVEs, prioritizing risk, and driving remediation — will directly shape how AI understands and reasons about cybersecurity.
What you'll do
- Analyze vulnerability reports, CVEs, and exposure scenarios across infrastructure and application environments
- Evaluate severity, exploitability, business impact, and remediation strategies for realistic security scenarios
- Review and assess patching, mitigation, and risk prioritization decision-making workflows
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- Generate, label, and validate security-reasoning data used to train and benchmark AI systems
- Apply your practitioner knowledge to ensure AI outputs reflect how security teams actually operate in production
Candidate background
Who You Are
- 2+ years of hands-on experience in vulnerability management, security operations, or infrastructure security
- Solid working knowledge of CVEs, vulnerability scanners, patching workflows, and risk prioritization frameworks (e.g., CVSS, EPSS, SSVC)
- You understand the real-world gap between theoretical risk scores and what actually needs to get fixed first
- Analytical, structured thinker who can articulate security reasoning clearly in writing
- Comfortable working independently and asynchronously on task-based assignments
Nice to Have
- Experience with tools like Tenable, Qualys, Rapid7, or similar vulnerability management platforms
- Familiarity with cloud security, container environments, or application security
- Background in threat intelligence or exposure management programs
- No prior AI experience required — your security expertise is what matters
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Vulnerability Management Analyst (AI Training)
About the Role
We're looking for experienced vulnerability management and security operations professionals to help evaluate and improve cutting-edge AI systems. Your real-world expertise — triaging CVEs, prioritizing risk, and driving remediation — will directly shape how AI understands and reasons about cybersecurity.
This is a unique opportunity to apply your hands-on security knowledge to one of the most impactful frontiers in technology: the development of intelligent AI systems that understand how defenders actually think.
- Organization: Alignerr - Type: Hourly Contract - Location: Remote - Commitment: 10–40 hours/week
What You'll Do
* Analyze vulnerability reports, CVEs, and exposure scenarios across infrastructure and application environments * Evaluate severity, exploitability, business impact, and remediation strategies for realistic security scenarios * Review and assess patching, mitigation, and risk prioritization decision-making workflows * Generate, label, and validate security-reasoning data used to train and benchmark AI systems * Apply your practitioner knowledge to ensure AI outputs reflect how security teams actually operate in production
Who You Are
* 2+ years of hands-on experience in vulnerability management, security operations, or infrastructure security * Solid working knowledge of CVEs, vulnerability scanners, patching workflows, and risk prioritization frameworks (e.g., CVSS, EPSS, SSVC) * You understand the real-world gap between theoretical risk scores and what actually needs to get fixed first * Analytical, structured thinker who can articulate security reasoning clearly in writing * Comfortable working independently and asynchronously on task-based assignments
Nice to Have
* Experience with tools like Tenable, Qualys, Rapid7, or similar vulnerability management platforms * Familiarity with cloud security, container environments, or application security * Background in threat intelligence or exposure management programs * No prior AI experience required — your security expertise is what matters
Why Join Us
* Work directly on frontier AI systems alongside world-leading research teams * Fully remote and flexible — work on your own schedule * Freelance autonomy with meaningful, intellectually stimulating work * Contribute to AI that genuinely understands real-world security operations * 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
- 044aca61-e7d2-4edd-ade7-d60935568fdd
Pay as the source states it: “$35-60/hr”.
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