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Remote AI Expert - Cybersecurity Jobs in North America 2026

47 remote jobs open to candidates in North America in AI Expert - Cybersecurity. Updated daily.

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AI Expert - Cybersecurity Contractor ↘ +2 regions
Flexible Java Rust +12 Algorithms C++ TypeScript Refactoring Optimization Penetration Testing Audit AI Engineering Verification Mechanical Systems APIs
  • India, United States
  • $30 – $100/hr
  • Oct 19, 2026

Pay: 30–100/hour Job Type: Contractor (~15 hrs a week) Location: Remote Schedule: Flexible, you pick the hours and days (including weekends if desired) Required Skills: Python3, Java, Rust, Algorithms, Basics of C++, TypeScript, Bug fixing, Feature implementation, Codebase…

Micro1
AI Web Security Communication +12 Architecture Analysis Testing Documentation Application Security Written Feedback Verbal communication Security Architecture Continuous Improvement Software Development Communication Skills Technical Documentation
  • Remote (Global)
  • $40 – $80/hr
  • Oct 15, 2026

Role Title: App Security Expert Role Type: Contractor Location: Remote micro1 is engaging App Security Experts to contribute to a customer’s dynamic project focused on real-world application security.

Mercor
Cybersecurity AI Research +10 Triage Make SIEM Confidentiality Expert Interviews Incident Response AI Agents Enterprise Security Digital Forensics Application Security
  • United States
  • $125 – $175/hr
  • Sep 23, 2026

Mercor is designing a benchmark that measures how well AI agents do real enterprise cyber defense work. Before we build it, we want to hear from people who do that work every day. This is a short paid research engagement, not a task or data project.

DataAnnotation.tech
AI Expert - Cybersecurity Contractor ↘ +6 regions
SQL Architecture Identity and Access Management +12 Reasoning Modeling Research English Training Make AI Flexible Application Security Code Review Threat Modeling Cloud Security
  • Australia, Canada, Ireland +3New ZealandUnited KingdomUnited States
  • Up to $125+/hr
  • Sep 22, 2026

Models are great at spotting the textbook SQL injection and blind to the flaw that only shows up in your architecture: the trust boundary drawn in the wrong place, the deserialization no scanner flags, the IAM policy that quietly grants the world.

DataAnnotation.tech
AI Expert - Cybersecurity Contractor ↘ +6 regions
ROOT Triage Analysis +9 Reasoning DFIR Operations English Training Make AI Flexible Incident Response
  • Australia, Canada, Ireland +3New ZealandUnited KingdomUnited States
  • Up to $125+/hr
  • Sep 22, 2026

During an incident, models love a tidy story: one root cause, a clean timeline, a confident containment plan. Real intrusions are messier, and a model that misreads a log or clears an attacker too early does real damage. Someone has to catch that, and that someone is you.

DataAnnotation.tech
AI Expert - Cybersecurity Contractor ↘ +6 regions
Reasoning Testing Red Teaming +6 English Training Make AI Flexible Penetration Testing
  • Australia, Canada, Ireland +3New ZealandUnited KingdomUnited States
  • Up to $125+/hr
  • Sep 22, 2026

Models can describe an exploit chain in confident detail and miss that step three never actually works, the payload gets filtered, or the whole path assumes a misconfiguration no real target would have.

DataAnnotation.tech
AI Expert - Cybersecurity Contractor ↘ +6 regions
Cybersecurity Authentication Management +11 Reasoning Engineering Operations English Training Make AI Flexible Input Handling Professional Experience Security Engineering
  • Australia, Canada, Ireland +3New ZealandUnited KingdomUnited States
  • Up to $125+/hr
  • Sep 22, 2026

Models will hand you code that looks secure and quietly ships a hardcoded secret, a broken auth check, or an injection the linter never flags. Someone has to tell security theater from an actual defense, and that someone is you.

Micro1
Flexible AI Java +12 Node.js Go Rust TypeScript Python C++ APIs Debugging Testing Cybersecurity Penetration Testing Web Security
  • Remote (Global)
  • $30 – $100/hr
  • Sep 20, 2026

Schedule: Flexible, you pick the hours and days (including weekends if desired) Job Summary: In this role, you'll apply your expertise to help train next-generation AI systems. Your work will shape how models learn, reason, and perform through high-quality, real-world input.

Vetto AI
AI Expert - Cybersecurity Contractor Talent pool
Cybersecurity AI Analysis +12 Infrastructure GRC Research Open Source Reasoning Rubrics Red Teaming Writing English Authorization Professional Judgment Digital Forensics
  • Remote (Global)
  • $50 – $200/hr
  • Sep 18, 2026

This is a talent pool application, not a role with an immediate start date. We are building a vetted network of cybersecurity professionals ahead of upcoming project demand.

Meridial AI
AI Sourcing Audit +12 Training Auditing Logic Modeling Problem Solving Insurance Application Security AI Training Professional Experience Vulnerability Assessment Secure Coding Threat Modeling
  • Remote (Global)
  • From $60/hr
  • Sep 4, 2026

Project Overview We are sourcing experienced technical specialists in CVE and Application Security to audit tasks used to train and evaluate AI systems.

AfterQuery
AI Triage Reasoning +12 Accuracy Operations Management SIEM Engineering GRC Monitoring Onboarding MATCH Training English Information Security
  • Remote (Global)
  • $113/hr
  • Aug 27, 2026

Security analysts to build the detection and incident response scenarios frontier AI labs use to test model judgment. AfterQuery builds the expert evaluation data that frontier AI labs use to measure and improve their models.

Ask Ethos
Cybersecurity GRC AI +12 Governance Compliance Management Audit Spreadsheets Documentation Mapping Flexible NIST Writing Communication IT GRC
  • Remote (Global)
  • $90/hr
  • Aug 15, 2026

We're working with a leading foundational AI lab to find experienced cybersecurity and IT GRC specialists who can help train their latest language model on professional document, spreadsheet, and slide deck tasks.

Alice
AI Expert - Cybersecurity Full-time ↘ +2 regions
GenAI Cybersecurity AI +12 Red Teaming Infrastructure Logic Role-Play Alignment Microsoft Teams Engineering Testing Simulation Research Fuzzing Architecture
  • United States, United Kingdom (US: NY)
  • $150k – $178k/yr
  • Aug 13, 2026

As a GenAI Cyber Red Team Expert, you'll adversarially test and strengthen the safety guardrails of GenAI systems against high-risk cyber threats - with a particular focus on industrial hacking, SCADA systems, ICS/OT environments, and CBRNE domains.

Mercor
Cybersecurity Research AI +12 Reasoning Analysis Engineering Network Fundamentals Open Source GitHub Kubernetes Linux Cryptography Fuzzing Programming C++
  • Remote (Global)
  • $200 – $250/hr
  • Aug 4, 2026

We're looking for highly accomplished Cybersecurity Research Experts to help evaluate cutting-edge AI systems in advanced security reasoning, vulnerability analysis, exploit development, and secure software engineering.

AfterQuery
Engineering Research AI +8 Education Communication Flexible Reverse Engineering Professional Experience Written communication Structured Feedback Remote Work
  • Remote (Global)
  • $135/hr
  • Aug 4, 2026

We're building a research cohort of senior domain experts in security — spanning cryptanalysis and reverse engineering — to help evaluate how frontier AI models reason about hard, real-world expert-level problems.

Alice
Go AI Investigations +12 Messaging Analysis Monitoring Research Flexible Collaboration Mechanical Systems English Mandarin Chinese Russian Automation Scripting
  • Remote (Global)
  • Jul 24, 2026

Alice.io (formerly known as ActiveFence) is a leading trust, safety, and security company. Just like 'Alice' herself, we go down the rabbit hole into the emerging world of AI and focus on safeguarding these technologies.

Remotasks
AI Expert - Cybersecurity Contractor · Full-time
AI Make Accuracy +12 Cybersecurity Training Mechanical Systems Procedures Management CISSP Investigations Organization Modeling Onboarding Threat Intelligence Artificial Intelligence
  • United States
  • Jul 20, 2026

Job Title: AI Response Evaluator for Cyber Security Threat Intelligence Location: Remote Job Type: Task-Based Contract (Make your own hours: 5 hours per week minimum) Overview: We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated individual to join our team as an AI Response Evaluator…

Alignerr
AI Red Teaming Cybersecurity +12 Organization Compliance Engineering Microsoft Teams Rubrics Testing Modeling Machine Learning LLMs Make Writing Open Source
  • Remote (Global)
  • $15-75/hr
  • Jul 16, 2026

If you've ever looked at a system and instinctively thought about how to break it — this role was built for you. We're looking for security-minded professionals to stress-test AI systems built on the OpenClaw platform.

Alignerr
Make Precision Infrastructure +12 Analysis Logic Operations Microsoft Teams Testing Writing AWS Microsoft Azure Google Cloud Platform Simulation Collaboration Engineering
  • Remote (Global)
  • $40–$80/hour
  • Jul 14, 2026

What if your ability to think like an attacker could directly make organizations more secure? We're looking for a Lead Penetration Tester to conduct sophisticated offensive security engagements — probing applications, networks, and cloud environments for vulnerabilities before…

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