Mercor Accepting applications AI Safety

CVE Vulnerability Expert

Remote — United States Remote Contract Posted 25 Aug 2026

$70–$90/hour

About this role

Evaluate the quality, fidelity, and completeness of vulnerability-reproduction and remediation tasks used to train and evaluate a frontier AI lab's models. You'll assess whether CVE reproductions are faithful, fixes are sound, verification logic is rigorous, and Docker-based lab environments accurately recreate exploitable conditions — and provide clear, rubric-based written feedback.

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of hands-on experience in application security, penetration testing, or vulnerability research

• Strong understanding of CVE vulnerability taxonomy and severity frameworks (CVSS, CWE, CAPEC)

• Demonstrated expertise in secure coding and remediation across common vulnerability classes (SQL injection, command injection, buffer overflow, deserialization, SSRF, misconfigurations, privilege escalation)

• Experience designing or evaluating two-part verification logic (functionality tests + vulnerability tests)

• Proficiency with Docker and Docker Compose for multi-container vulnerability reproduction environments

Preferred Qualifications

• OSCP, GPEN, GWAPT, or equivalent offensive-security certification

• Experience with CVE disclosure, responsible vulnerability reporting, or maintaining exploit proof-of-concept code

• Background in DevSecOps, CI/CD security gating, or SAST/DAST tooling

• Prior technical content review, assessment design, or QA for security-focused engineering tasks

Skills

Vulnerability ResearchCVE AnalysisSecurity

Career tracks

Sourced from Mercor · original listing · application link last checked 31 Aug 2026

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