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CVE Vulnerability Expert

Mercor · 100% remote · Contract · Posted

Pay
$70–90/hr
Location
United States
Languages
English
Hours
Flexible
Openings
Not listed
Level
Expert
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Summary

Evaluate quality, fidelity, and completeness of vulnerability-reproduction and remediation tasks for AI training. Assess CVE reproductions, fix soundness, verification logic, and Docker environments, and provide rubric-based feedback.

What you'll do

  • Assess CVE reproductions for fidelity
  • Evaluate remediation soundness
  • Check verification logic rigor
  • Review Docker-based lab environments for accurate exploitability
  • Provide clear rubric-based written feedback

Requirements

  • Have 3+ years of experience in application security, penetration testing, or vulnerability research
  • Understand CVE vulnerability taxonomy and severity frameworks (CVSS, CWE, CAPEC)
  • Demonstrate expertise in secure coding and remediation across common vulnerability classes
  • Design or evaluate two-part verification logic (functionality and vulnerability tests)
  • Use Docker and Docker Compose for multi-container environments

Skills

  • CVE
  • CVSS
  • CWE
  • CAPEC
  • Docker
  • Docker Compose
  • Penetration Testing
  • Secure Coding

Full description

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

Location: open to applicants in United States.

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