Security Operations Analyst
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About the Role We're partnering with leading AI research labs to build the next generation of intelligent security systems. As a Security Operations Analyst, your real-world SOC experience becomes the foundation for training AI that reasons through threats, alerts, and investigations the way a skilled analyst actually would. This is a unique opportunity to go beyond the day-to-day grind of traditional security work and directly influence how AI understands and responds to cyber threats — at a frontier level. - Organization: Alignerr - Type: Hourly Contract - Location: Remote - Commitment: 10–40 hours/week What You'll Do - Analyze realistic SOC scenarios — incidents, alerts, and investigations — and document your expert reasoning - Classify threat severity, identify root causes, and recommend appropriate response actions - Review and evaluate detection logic and investigation workflows for accuracy and completeness - Validate AI-generated security outputs to ensure they reflect how analysts actually think and operate - Flag gaps, misclassifications, or unrealistic AI responses and provide structured expert feedback - Work independently and asynchronously on your own schedule Who You Are - 2+ years of hands-on experience in a SOC, incident response, or security operations role - Solid familiarity with SIEM platforms, alert triage processes, and investigation workflows - Skilled at distinguishing true positives from noise and false positives - Strong written communication skills — able to explain your reasoning clearly and concisely - Self-motivated and comfortable working independently on task-based assignments Nice to Have - Experience with threat hunting, detection engineering, or red/blue team operations - Familiarity with frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK, NIST, or similar - Background in cloud security, endpoint detection, or network forensics - Prior experience in AI evaluation or annotation workflows Why Join Us - Work directly on frontier AI systems used by world-leading research labs - Fully remote and flexible — work on your schedule, at your pace - Freelance autonomy with meaningful, intellectually engaging work - Apply your security expertise in an entirely new and high-impact domain - Potential for ongoing work and contract extension as projects grow
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