Vulnerability Management Analyst

About The Role

We're looking for experienced security professionals to help train and evaluate cutting-edge AI systems on real-world vulnerability management. Your hands-on knowledge of how security teams actually discover, prioritize, and remediate risk will directly shape how the next generation of AI understands cybersecurity.

This is a unique opportunity to put your practitioner expertise to work beyond the SOC --- influencing AI that will be used by security teams worldwide.

• Organization: Alignerr
• Type: Hourly Contract
• Location: Remote
• Commitment: 10--40 hours/week

What You'll Do

• Analyze vulnerability reports, CVEs, and exposure scenarios across infrastructure and applications
• Classify severity, impact, exploitability, and appropriate remediation strategies
• Review and evaluate patching, mitigation, and risk decision-making scenarios for realism and accuracy
• Generate, label, and validate security-reasoning data used to train and benchmark AI systems
• Apply your real-world experience to distinguish between theoretical risk and what actually matters in production environments

Who You Are

• 2+ years of experience in vulnerability management, security operations, or infrastructure security
• Solid familiarity with CVEs, vulnerability scanners, patching workflows, and risk prioritization frameworks (e.g., CVSS, EPSS, SSVC)
• You understand the tradeoffs between textbook risk scores and operational reality
• A clear, structured, and analytical thinker who can communicate reasoning in writing
• Self-motivated and comfortable working independently on async, task-based assignments

Nice to Have

• Experience with tools like Tenable, Qualys, Rapid7, or similar vulnerability management platforms
• Background in threat intelligence, red teaming, or penetration testing
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure security and container vulnerability management
• Prior experience working with AI training, data labeling, or technical content review

Why Join Us

• Work directly on frontier AI systems alongside the world's leading AI research labs
• Fully remote and flexible --- work on your own schedule
• Freelance perks: autonomy, variety, and global collaboration
• Your security expertise creates a direct, lasting impact on how AI reasons about real-world risk
• Potential for ongoing work and contract extension