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Offensive Cybersecurity Engineers: Build RL Environments for AI Evaluation

Role overview

Summary

This role focuses on building and hardening reinforcement learning environments for AI evaluation at Terac. You will contribute to understanding and mitigating advanced security risks in emerging technologies through collaboration and iterative development.

Qualifications

  • Professional experience in offensive cybersecurity or penetration testing.
  • Strong background in building or hardening technical environments.
  • Comfortable working on long-term hourly remote projects.
  • Preferred: Interest in AI safety and model evaluation.
  • Preferred: Familiarity with reinforcement learning or AI evaluation frameworks.

Responsibilities

  • Design and build offensive cybersecurity reinforcement learning environments
  • Harden existing benchmarks to withstand advanced AI interactions
  • Develop rigorous evaluation criteria for frontier AI models
  • Collaborate on a long-term hourly basis to iterate on security scenarios

Key facts

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Collaboration
  • Problem Solving
  • Time Management

About the company

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Terac

  • Market Research
  • 11–50
Terac is an AI‑native research platform that sources participants, conducts human‑like interviews at scale, analyzes results, and pays out participants - delivering actionable insights in hours, not weeks. Product teams use Terac to run voice, video, and text interviews, concept and usability tests, and to build a living research repository they can query anytime. Our in‑house participant panel, quality controls, and self‑serve workflow mean faster cycles, higher‑quality participants, and insights that move the roadmap now, not next quarter.

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Job description

What We're Researching

We're hiring offensive cybersecurity experts for a long-term paid project focused on AI evaluation. Our goal is to build and harden reinforcement learning environments that test the limits of frontier AI models. This work directly contributes to understanding and mitigating advanced security risks in emerging technologies.

How It Works

You will work remotely on an hourly basis to design and implement complex cybersecurity benchmarks. Your tasks will involve creating robust reinforcement learning environments tailored for offensive security scenarios. You will continuously harden these environments to ensure they provide rigorous evaluations for AI systems. The project requires ongoing collaboration and iterative development to keep pace with new vulnerabilities.

Who This Is For

We welcome offensive cybersecurity engineers, penetration testers, and security researchers with strong technical backgrounds. Ideal candidates have hands-on experience building secure environments or developing security benchmarks. Familiarity with reinforcement learning or AI evaluation frameworks is highly valued but not strictly required.

What You'll Do

  • Design and build offensive cybersecurity reinforcement learning environments

  • Harden existing benchmarks to withstand advanced AI interactions

  • Develop rigorous evaluation criteria for frontier AI models

  • Collaborate on a long-term hourly basis to iterate on security scenarios

Who Should Apply

  • Professional experience in offensive cybersecurity or penetration testing

  • Strong background in building or hardening technical environments

  • Comfortable working on long-term hourly remote projects

  • Interest in AI safety and model evaluation

Compensation

$150 per hour

 

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About Terac

Terac is building the world's largest pool of vetted human experts for AI. Researchers, AI labs, and product teams use Terac to recruit, screen, and pay study participants across industries, languages, and skill sets.

 

Learn more at terac.com or on YouTube at @jointerac.

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