Application Security Engineer - AI Trainer

DataAnnotation offers a remote contract opportunity to help train AI security models. This role involves evaluating AI-generated cybersecurity content, solving security problems, and delivering feedback that shapes how AI systems reason about threats and defenses. The arrangement provides flexible scheduling and remote work, allowing you to balance with other commitments or pursue it as a primary focus.

Benefits

• Fully remote: work from anywhere in the US, Canada, UK, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand.
• Flexible schedule: choose projects and hours that fit your life, using your own computer from home.
• Competitive pay: hourly rates from $50 to $100, with opportunities for higher bonus rates on select projects.
• Impact: help shape the future of AI technologies built for cybersecurity.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate AI-generated cybersecurity content, including threat analyses, vulnerability assessments, and offensive security techniques, for real-world accuracy and validity.
• Design and solve security-focused technical problems used to train AI systems.
• Write clear technical explanations and security-relevant code.
• Provide feedback that directly shapes the next generation of AI security models.

Requirements

• 2+ years of hands-on cybersecurity experience in roles such as penetration testing, red teaming, incident response, detection engineering, DFIR, malware analysis, threat intelligence, or adjacent fields, including government or military cyber operations.
• Some coding experience; comfort navigating and patching a codebase is key.
• English proficiency at native or bilingual level with strong writing skills.
• Bachelor's degree preferred.
• Cybersecurity certifications are a plus (eg OSCP, CRTO, GREM, GCFA, CEH, and similar).

Note: Payment is issued via PayPal. We will never ask for money from applicants. This position is open to candidates located in the US, Canada, UK, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand.