Incident Response Analyst
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About the Role We partner with the world's leading AI research teams to build and evaluate cutting-edge AI systems. We're looking for experienced incident response professionals to help train and validate AI models designed to support real-world digital investigations and security operations. Your expertise will directly shape how AI understands and responds to security threats — making a meaningful impact on the next generation of cybersecurity tools. - Organization: Alignerr - Type: Hourly Contract - Location: Remote - Commitment: 10–40 hours/week What You'll Do - Analyze realistic security events, alerts, and incident cases to evaluate AI-generated responses - Assess impact, root cause, and appropriate remediation paths for simulated and real-world scenarios - Review and validate detection rules, alerting pipelines, and investigative playbooks - Verify that AI-generated incident analysis accurately reflects how real security operations teams think and work - Provide structured, expert feedback to help AI systems improve their threat reasoning and response quality Who You Are - 2+ years of hands-on experience in SOC, incident response, or security operations - Comfortable working with SIEM platforms, alert queues, and investigation tooling - Skilled at distinguishing meaningful threats from background noise - Able to communicate technical findings clearly in writing - Self-motivated and comfortable working independently on task-based assignments Nice to Have - Experience with threat hunting, digital forensics, or red/blue team operations - Familiarity with cloud security environments (AWS, Azure, GCP) - Background in writing or reviewing detection rules and incident playbooks - Prior experience with AI evaluation or data annotation workflows Why Join Us - Work directly on frontier AI systems built for real-world cybersecurity use cases - Fully remote and flexible — work on your own schedule - Freelance perks: autonomy, variety, and collaboration with global security experts - Contribute to meaningful work that shapes how AI handles cybersecurity challenges - Potential for ongoing work and contract extension
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