Job Title:
Remote Cyber Benchmark Pre-work - AI Trainer ($85-$140 per hour)
Company: Mercor
Location: Santa Rosa, CA
Created: 2026-05-08
Job Type: Full Time
Job Description:
Cybersecurity Engineer - Blue Team About the Role Offensive AI benchmarks are everywhere. Blue-team evaluation is almost nonexistent. We're building the infrastructure to change that "” credible, large-scale benchmarks for detection engineering, threat hunting, incident triage, malware analysis, and incident response. What You'll Do Design and build benchmark tasks grounded in real SOC and detection engineering work. Construct realistic evaluation environments "” multi-host networks, Active Directory, cloud control planes "” that go beyond toy single-container scenarios. Define what "correct" looks like for blue-team AI reasoning and build the infrastructure to measure it reproducibly at scale. What We're Looking For Hands"‘on blue"‘team experience in at least one of detection engineering, threat hunting, incident response, or malware analysis. Strong scripting and cloud / enterprise environment skills. Opinionated about what matters and why. Ability to write evals that test good analyst judgment. Why It Matters AI security evals measure offense. Nobody has built a credible public benchmark for defense. If that gap bothers you, this is the role to fix it. #J-18808-Ljbffr