Cybersecurity Practitioner – 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 where judgment matters • Explain how teams measure triage, investigation, containment, threat hunting, detection rule, and patch quality • Discuss where AI assistance helps or hinders current cybersecurity work • Provide feedback on what would make an AI cybersecurity benchmark credible • Review Mercor’s draft task taxonomy and identify missing or mislabeled areas and different weighting considerations • Describe patterns rather than specific incidents and exclude confidential information • Nothing to build, label, or submit

🎯 Requirements

• Current or recent hands-on practitioner in enterprise security • Experience as a SOC analyst or SOC lead (tier 2 and above), incident responder, digital forensics investigator, detection engineer, threat hunter, application security or product security engineer, or security engineer involved 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 they remain close to the work • Must be US-based • Must be able to work as an independent contractor • Unable to support H1-B or STEM OPT candidates at this time • Must avoid sharing confidential information about current or former employers or customers

🏖️ Benefits

• Paid hourly for interview time as a spot bonus • Payments are weekly on Stripe or Wise based on services rendered • Fully remote role that can be completed on your own schedule • Projects can be extended, shortened, or concluded early depending on needs and performance • Collaborate with leading researchers • Help shape the next generation of AI systems • Up to $2,000 for each successful referral through the referral program • Reasonable accommodations upon request