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CVE Vulnerability Expert

MercorLegit · not rated yetPosted on 25 Aug 2026

Pay: $70–90/hr

Who can apply
Open only to people in United States
Hours
40 hrs/week · Contract
Where
Remote, work from home
Job type
Expert (SME) review
Openings
3 openings

At a glance: A contract, remote expert (SME) review job with Mercor. It pays $70–90/hr for 40 hours a week. Only people in United States can apply.

  • Ongoing · listed since 25 Aug 2026

    Mercor keeps this listing open to recruit all year. It is still open, but it isn’t a new opening.

What happens after you click Apply

  1. You leave AI Trainer HQ and go to Mercor’s own site.
  2. Upload your résumé on work.mercor.com
  3. Confirm your work authorization
  4. Sit the AI interview, which takes about 20 minutes
  5. Complete any written assessment attached to the listing
  6. On receiving an offer, sign it, configure payouts and verify your identity

How this pay compares

This job pays more than 73% of the 204 other science (PhD) jobs on the board that state pay; 26% pay more.

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Requirements

Qualifications
  • Not specified in the listing
Languages
  • English
Equipment
  • Computer with a reliable internet connection

About this job

Evaluate the quality, fidelity, and completeness of vulnerability-reproduction and remediation tasks used to train and evaluate a frontier AI lab's models. You'll assess whether CVE reproductions are faithful, fixes are sound, verification logic is rigorous, and Docker-based lab environments accurately recreate exploitable conditions — and provide clear, rubric-based written feedback.

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of hands-on experience in application security, penetration testing, or vulnerability research

• Strong understanding of CVE vulnerability taxonomy and severity frameworks (CVSS, CWE, CAPEC)

• Demonstrated expertise in secure coding and remediation across common vulnerability classes (SQL injection, command injection, buffer overflow, deserialization, SSRF, misconfigurations, privilege escalation)

• Experience designing or evaluating two-part verification logic (functionality tests + vulnerability tests)

• Proficiency with Docker and Docker Compose for multi-container vulnerability reproduction environments

Preferred Qualifications

• OSCP, GPEN, GWAPT, or equivalent offensive-security certification

• Experience with CVE disclosure, responsible vulnerability reporting, or maintaining exploit proof-of-concept code

• Background in DevSecOps, CI/CD security gating, or SAST/DAST tooling

• Prior technical content review, assessment design, or QA for security-focused engineering tasks

Listing history

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Posted by Mercor
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