Senior Application Security Engineer

Help a top AI lab evaluate and improve large language models through security-focused coding tasks. Bring your software-engineering judgment and hands‑on security experience to work involving vulnerabilities, exploit verification and security patches. This is a contracting engagement, with potential for a longer-term engagement. Remote candidates in the selected countries are elegible. What you will do
- Evaluate coding tasks involving software vulnerabilities, exploit verification and security patches.
- Create high-quality coding prompts and reference answers for benchmark-style problems.
- Evaluate model outputs for code generation, refactoring, debugging and implementation.
- Identify and document model failures, edge cases and reasoning gaps.
- Compare private language models with leading external models.
- Build or configure coding environments for evaluation and reinforcement learning.
- Follow detailed annotation and evaluation guidelines consistently. What you bring
- At least five years of professional software-development experience and strong Python skills.
- Hands‑on experience with vulnerability research, exploit reproduction or verification, or implementing, backporting or validating security patches.
- The ability to apply structured evaluation criteria and write clear technical feedback.
- Fluency in written and spoken English. Helpful, not required
- Professional code review, coding annotation, LLM/code evaluation or benchmark design.
- Knowledge of another programming language.
- Team leadership or mentoring experience.