Cybersecurity Practitioner: Paid Expert Interviews (SOC, Incident Response, Detection, AppSec)
mercor
$125 – $175/hour · as listed
Mercor is seeking experienced cybersecurity professionals to participate in paid expert interviews for a research initiative focused on AI capabilities in enterprise defense. Over approximately four weeks, you'll join 2–3 one-hour video conversations to discuss your hands-on experience in security operations, incident response, threat detection, and application security. This is a research engagement designed to capture real-world insights from practitioners—not a task-based or data labeling role. The work suits advanced-level professionals with coding backgrounds who actively work in cybersecurity and can speak to current practices and challenges. Flexible scheduling accommodates your existing commitments.
This remote opportunity is available to US-based practitioners and pays $125–$175 per hour. If you have deep expertise in SOC operations, incident response, detection engineering, or AppSec and want to contribute to shaping how AI is evaluated for cyber defense work, this engagement offers a straightforward way to share your knowledge.
From the listing: Mercor marketplace · hourly · 2h/week. ## About the work 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. You will join two to three one-hour video conversations with the Mercor team over roughly four weeks, scheduled around your availa
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