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Offensive Cybersecurity Engineers: Build RL Environments for AI Evaluation

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TypeContract
WorkplaceRemote
Salary$150/hr
LocationUnited States
Posted11/9/2026
Engineering

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.

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Terac is providing specialized experts on demand to power research. Access top-tier talent or find work today with Terac

Terac is building the infrastructure layer that connects AI systems with on-demand human expertise. We believe the future of work is shifting: instead of humans using AI to do most tasks, AI will increasingly do most work with the help of humans. In that world, companies won’t need traditional employees - but they will still need people. Terac powers that future by making high-quality human labor accessible through a single API. Today, Terac operates as an expert network for frontier research. We handle sourcing, verification, screening, and payouts so partners can instantly access specialized talent for research, evaluation, and data generation. Our platform enables companies to tap into niche expertise on demand while focusing on building their core products. Backed by $9M from Emergence, SignalFire, Audacious, and Z Fellows, we’re scaling from research tooling into a broader marketplace for the human data economy - building systems for expert matching, pricing, routing, and trust

Private companySeedHiring fastBrand new
AI-product
Founded2025
HQSan Francisco, United States
Size11–50 employees
IndustryResearch Services
Latest fundingSeed · Nov 21, 2025

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