Cybersecurity Practitioner – Paid Expert Interviews, SOC, Incident Response, Detection, AppSec

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $125 - $175 / hour

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

👮‍♂️ Cybersecurity / Security Engineer

👻 Ghost score 6%

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Mercor

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2023

🔥 Funding within the last year

💰 $350M Series C - Mercor on 2025-10

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📋 Description

• Participate in two to three one-hour video conversations with the Mercor team over roughly four weeks • Discuss how enterprise cybersecurity work happens, including tools, queues, and areas requiring judgment • Explain how teams measure triage, investigation, containment, threat hunting, detection rule, or patch quality • Share where AI assistance helps or hinders current security work • Provide feedback on Mercor's draft AI cyber-defense task taxonomy, including missing, mislabeled, or differently weighted tasks • Describe general patterns without sharing confidential information or specific incidents • Nothing to build, label, or submit

🎯 Requirements

• Current or recent hands-on practitioner in enterprise security • Examples include SOC analysts and SOC leads (tier 2 and above) • Incident response and digital forensics experience • Detection engineering and threat hunting experience • Application security or product security engineering experience finding and fixing vulnerabilities in production code • Experience running or participating in a red team engagement • Experience with an EDR and SIEM stack such as CrowdStrike Falcon, Microsoft Defender and Sentinel, Splunk, SentinelOne, Elastic, or similar is a plus • Security leaders are welcome if still close to the work • Must be based in the United States • Unable to support H1-B or STEM OPT candidates at this time

🏖️ Benefits

• Paid hourly for interview time as a spot bonus • Payments are weekly on Stripe or Wise based on services rendered • Fully remote work completed on your own schedule • No prep is expected • Confidentiality protections: input is used only to design the benchmark and is never attributed to you or your employer • Reasonable accommodations upon request • Opportunity to collaborate with leading researchers and help shape next-generation AI systems