Crossing Hurdles
Website:
crossinghurdles.com
Job details:
Position: SWE (Cybersecurity)
Type: Hourly contract
Compensation: $60-$70 per hour
Commitment: Part-time weekly commitment
Location: Remote
Role Responsibilities
- Design benchmark cybersecurity tasks by defining vulnerability classes, exploit behavior, and difficulty levels.
- Create or validate runnable code environments that demonstrate trust boundary violations.
- Develop exploit scripts to validate security vulnerabilities and document unsafe behaviors clearly.
- Implement and verify patches that prevent exploits and confirm the effectiveness of security fixes.
- Produce detailed task metadata including severity mapping, code locations, impact analysis, and remediation summaries.
- Review datasets and tasks to ensure accuracy of paths, code references, labels, and exploit validation.
- Reconstruct reasoning processes behind model outputs to improve AI understanding of software security tasks.
- Contribute structured technical documentation supporting dataset quality and model benchmarking.
Requirements
- Professional experience in software engineering with a focus on cybersecurity, vulnerability research, or secure software development.
- Academic background in computer science, software engineering, or a related technical field.
- Strong proficiency in programming languages commonly used in open-source software projects.
- Familiarity with version control workflows including repositories, pull requests, and issue tracking.
- Ability to analyze vulnerabilities and articulate technical reasoning in clear written form.
- Experience working with codebases and identifying security weaknesses.
Application Process
- Upload resume
- Interview
- Submit form
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