Application Security Engineer | $70/hr Remote

Position: SWE (Cybersecurity)

Type: Hourly contract

Compensation: $60-$70 per hour

Commitment: Part-time weekly commitment

Location: Remote

Role Responsibilities

• Design benchmark cybersecurity tasks by defining vulnerability classes, exploit behavior, and difficulty levels.
• Create or validate runnable code environments that demonstrate trust boundary violations.
• Develop exploit scripts to validate security vulnerabilities and document unsafe behaviors clearly.
• Implement and verify patches that prevent exploits and confirm the effectiveness of security fixes.
• Produce detailed task metadata including severity mapping, code locations, impact analysis, and remediation summaries.
• Review datasets and tasks to ensure accuracy of paths, code references, labels, and exploit validation.
• Reconstruct reasoning processes behind model outputs to improve AI understanding of software security tasks.
• Contribute structured technical documentation supporting dataset quality and model benchmarking.

Requirements

• Professional experience in software engineering with a focus on cybersecurity, vulnerability research, or secure software development.
• Academic background in computer science, software engineering, or a related technical field.
• Strong proficiency in programming languages commonly used in open-source software projects.
• Familiarity with version control workflows including repositories, pull requests, and issue tracking.
• Ability to analyze vulnerabilities and articulate technical reasoning in clear written form.
• Experience working with codebases and identifying security weaknesses.

Application Process

• Upload resume
• Interview
• Submit form