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Terac

Offensive Cybersecurity Engineers: Build RL Environments for AI Evaluation

United States

Location
United States
Work
Remote
Employment
Contract
Level
Not stated
Function
Security
Pay
From $150.00 an hour (read from the ad)
Posted
Today

Pay and the market here

The top of this role’s range, $312K a year, is 56% above the median of $200K for security jobs in United States (middle half $144K – $255K, 2,527 jobs that state pay).

3,221 security jobs open in United States: 24% remote, 1,093 posted in the last 30 days.

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About the role

What We're Researching

We're hiring offensive cybersecurity experts for a long-term paid project focused on AI evaluation. Our goal is to build and harden reinforcement learning environments that test the limits of frontier AI models. This work directly contributes to understanding and mitigating advanced security risks in emerging technologies.

How It Works

You will work remotely on an hourly basis to design and implement complex cybersecurity benchmarks. Your tasks will involve creating robust reinforcement learning environments tailored for offensive security scenarios. You will continuously harden these environments to ensure they provide rigorous evaluations for AI systems. The project requires ongoing collaboration and iterative development to keep pace with new vulnerabilities.

Who This Is For

We welcome offensive cybersecurity engineers, penetration testers, and security researchers with strong technical backgrounds. Ideal candidates have hands-on experience building secure environments or developing security benchmarks. Familiarity with reinforcement learning or AI evaluation frameworks is highly valued but not strictly required.

What You'll Do

  • Design and build offensive cybersecurity reinforcement learning environments
  • Harden existing benchmarks to withstand advanced AI interactions
  • Develop rigorous evaluation criteria for frontier AI models
  • Collaborate on a long-term hourly basis to iterate on security scenarios

Who Should Apply

  • Professional experience in offensive cybersecurity or penetration testing
  • Strong background in building or hardening technical environments
  • Comfortable working on long-term hourly remote projects
  • Interest in AI safety and model evaluation

Compensation

$150 per hour

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About Terac

Terac is building the world's largest pool of vetted human experts for AI. Researchers, AI labs, and product teams use Terac to recruit, screen, and pay study participants across industries, languages, and skill sets.

Learn more at terac.com or on YouTube at @jointerac.

Source

Posted by Terac on their own hiring page, jobs.ashbyhq.com. OptiTalent shows it as published, read 09 Nov 2026 15:28 UTC; the original is the reference.

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