Offensive Cybersecurity Engineer
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Offensive Cybersecurity Engineers: Build RL Environments for AI Evaluation
Department: Participant Recruitment
Location: United States
Employment Type: Contract
What Were Researching
Were hiring offensive cybersecurity experts for a long-term paid project focused on AI evaluation. Our goal is to build and harden reinforcement learning environments that test the limits of frontier AI models. This work directly contributes to understanding and mitigating advanced security risks in emerging technologies.
How It Works
You will work remotely on an hourly basis to design and implement complex cybersecurity benchmarks. Your tasks will involve creating robust reinforcement learning environments tailored for offensive security scenarios. You will continuously harden these environments to ensure they provide rigorous evaluations for AI systems. The project requires ongoing collaboration and iterative development to keep pace with new vulnerabilities.
Who This Is For
We welcome offensive cybersecurity engineers, penetration testers, and security researchers with strong technical backgrounds. Ideal candidates have hands-on experience building secure environments or developing security benchmarks. Familiarity with reinforcement learning or AI evaluation frameworks is highly valued but not strictly required.
What Youll Do
Design and build offensive cybersecurity reinforcement learning environments
Harden existing benchmarks to withstand advanced AI interactions
Develop rigorous evaluation criteria for frontier AI models
Collaborate on a long-term hourly basis to iterate on security scenarios
Who Should Apply
Professional experience in offensive cybersecurity or penetration testing
Strong background in building or hardening technical environments
Comfortable working on long-term hourly remote projects
Interest in AI safety and model evaluation
Compensation
$150 per hour
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About Terac
Terac is building the worlds largest pool of vetted human experts for AI. Researchers, AI labs, and product teams use Terac to recruit, screen, and pay study participants across industries, languages, and skill sets.
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