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Security Engineer - AI Coding Agent

$85 per hour

Mercor

Toronto, ON
  • Remote job

About the job

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco, our investors include Benchmark , General Catalyst , Peter Thiel , Adam D'Angelo , Larry Summers , and Jack Dorsey .

Position: Security Engineer (Coding Agent Experience)

Type: Contract

Compensation: $85/hour

Location: Remote

Role Responsibilities

  • Use frontier AI coding agents to complete and evaluate complex security engineering tasks .
  • Review model-generated code and architectures for vulnerabilities and security risks.
  • Identify bugs, edge cases, and security-related failure modes.
  • Compare outputs from multiple frontier models to assess strengths and weaknesses.
  • Apply professional engineering judgment to realistic security engineering scenarios .
  • Work independently and asynchronously to meet deadlines while improving AI model performance .

Qualifications

Must-Have

  • 2+ years of professional security engineering experience.
  • Experience with application security , cloud security , infrastructure security , or vulnerability management .
  • Regular use of AI coding agents such as Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Windsurf, or Gemini CLI.
  • Ability to identify flaws in model-generated code and architectures.

Preferred

  • Experience securing production systems.

Compensation & Legal

  • $400 per accepted task .
  • Compensation is tied to accepted work.

Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)

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  • AI interview based on your resume
  • Submit form

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Vacancy posted 24 days ago
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