We are sharing a specialised remote consulting opportunity for experienced cybersecurity researchers with strong expertise in offensive security, vulnerability research, exploit analysis, reverse engineering, and secure software engineering.
This opportunity supports advanced AI evaluation work focused on complex cybersecurity reasoning and technical security analysis. Selected experts will assess AI-generated vulnerability research, exploit reasoning, root-cause analysis, and defensive recommendations while helping develop rigorous benchmarks for advanced security capabilities.
Key Responsibilities
Vulnerability Research & Analysis
Evaluate technical analyses of complex software vulnerabilities and security scenarios
Validate vulnerability root causes across software, operating systems, networks, cloud environments, and web applications
Assess whether reported vulnerabilities are technically sound and realistically exploitable
Review security findings for completeness, technical accuracy, and appropriate severity assessment
Identify missing assumptions, flawed reasoning, or unsupported conclusions in vulnerability analyses
Offensive Security & Exploit Evaluation
Review AI-generated exploit analyses and multi-stage attack reasoning
Assess exploitability, technical feasibility, prerequisites, and underlying security assumptions
Evaluate reasoning involving reverse engineering, binary analysis, memory corruption, application security, and related offensive-security domains
Critique exploit chains and identify weaknesses or inconsistencies in technical reasoning
Assess whether proposed mitigations appropriately address identified vulnerabilities
Security Reasoning & Defensive Review
Evaluate defensive recommendations and secure software engineering guidance
Review mitigation strategies for technical correctness and practical effectiveness
Assess reasoning across operating-system, network, web, cloud, browser, mobile, and embedded-security contexts
Distinguish well-supported security conclusions from speculative or incomplete assessments
Provide structured written feedback explaining technical evaluation decisions
Benchmark & Evaluation Development
Contribute to structured benchmarks for advanced AI cybersecurity capabilities
Develop or refine evaluation criteria for vulnerability analysis and security reasoning
Review technical evaluation rubrics for realism, completeness, and expert-level difficulty
Identify security scenarios that effectively test advanced reasoning capabilities
Help establish consistent standards for evaluating complex cybersecurity outputs
Ideal Profile
Strong professional or research background in offensive security, vulnerability research, exploit development, application security, product security, or security engineering
Demonstrated expertise across multiple areas such as reverse engineering, binary analysis, vulnerability research, operating systems, networks, web security, or cryptography
Multiple recognised technical achievements, such as competitive CTF performance, published CVEs, major bug-bounty findings, security research publications, or significant public technical contributions
Experience identifying or analysing vulnerabilities affecting widely used open-source or commercial software
Familiarity with reverse-engineering tools such as IDA Pro, Ghidra, Binary Ninja, Radare2, or comparable platforms
Experience with fuzzing, symbolic execution, static analysis, dynamic analysis, or related vulnerability-discovery techniques
Strong programming ability in languages such as C/C++, Rust, Python, Go, or Java
Ability to communicate complex cybersecurity concepts clearly and precisely in writing
Experience within a recognised security research laboratory, academic research group, product-security team, or equivalent industry environment is highly valued
Conference publications or presentations at venues such as Black Hat, DEF CON, USENIX Security, IEEE S&P, ACM CCS, NDSS, or comparable events are highly valued
Contributions to established open-source security tools or recognised bug-bounty programmes are advantageous
Relevant advanced security certifications may also be considered
Engagement Details
Fully remote independent contractor engagement
Flexible scheduling based on project requirements
Engagements may be extended, shortened, or concluded based on project needs and performance
Work must be completed without using confidential or proprietary information belonging to any employer, client, institution, or other third party
H1-B and STEM OPT support is unavailable for this engagement
Strong contributors may be considered for additional cybersecurity evaluation projects
About the Platform
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