Incident Response Analyst
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About the Role We're partnering with world-leading AI research labs to build the next generation of cybersecurity AI. As an Incident Response Analyst, you'll bring your real-world SOC experience to help train and evaluate AI systems designed to detect threats, correlate alerts, and support digital investigations — making sure these tools think like the best analysts in the field. This is a unique opportunity to move beyond the alert queue and directly influence how AI understands and responds to security incidents. - 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 steps for simulated and real-world scenarios - Review detection rules, alerting pipelines, and investigative playbooks for accuracy and completeness - Verify that AI-generated incident analysis reflects how real security operations teams actually work - Provide structured, expert feedback to improve AI model quality and reliability Who You Are - 2+ years of hands-on experience in a SOC, incident response, or security operations role - Comfortable working with SIEM platforms, alert queues, and investigation tooling - Skilled at triaging signals and separating genuine threats from noise - Able to articulate your reasoning clearly in written form - Self-directed and reliable in an async, remote work environment Nice to Have - Experience with threat hunting, digital forensics, or purple team operations - Familiarity with frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK or NIST IR - Background in reviewing or writing detection content or playbooks - Prior exposure to AI evaluation or data labeling workflows Why Join Us - Work on frontier AI systems being built with top-tier research organizations - Fully remote and flexible — set your own schedule and workload - Freelance autonomy with meaningful, intellectually engaging work - Contribute to AI that could shape the future of cybersecurity operations - Potential for ongoing work and contract extension based on performance
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