Cybersecurity Practitioner: Paid Expert Interviews (SOC, Incident Response, Detection, AppSec)
Mercor
$125 – $175/hour · as listed
Mercor is recruiting cybersecurity professionals to participate in paid expert interviews about real-world enterprise defense practices. As an intermediate-level practitioner, you'll share your hands-on experience in Security Operations Centers, incident response, threat detection, or application security through two to three one-hour remote conversations conducted over approximately four weeks. This research engagement—distinct from typical AI data work—helps inform how AI agents are benchmarked against actual cybersecurity responsibilities. The role suits coding professionals with practical security expertise who can articulate their day-to-day workflows and decision-making processes. This is a flexible gig arrangement requiring roughly two hours per week, with scheduling accommodated to your availability.
The work involves discussing your cybersecurity methodologies, tools, challenges, and approaches in conversational interviews. Your insights directly shape how AI performance is measured against genuine enterprise security work, making this particularly valuable for practitioners who want to influence AI development in the field.
Compensation is $125–$175 per hour. US-based practitioners only.
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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