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# Security Engineer - AI Coding Agent - AI Trainer

- **Company:** Mercor, Inc.
- **Location:** Chicago, IL, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $176,800.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing Security, Cyber Security, Cursor (Graphical User Interface Elements), Software Vulnerability Management, Software Security
- **Published:** June 19, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=b67b365147637702

## About the Role

Do you have experience in Security architecture review?, Must-Have

 * 2+ years of professional security engineering experience.
 * Experience with application security, cloud security, infrastructure security, or vulnerability management.
 * Regular use of AI coding agents such as Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Windsurf, or Gemini CLI.
 * Ability to identify flaws in model-generated code and architectures.

Preferred

 * Experience securing production systems.

## Description

* Use frontier AI coding agents to complete and evaluate complex security engineering tasks.
 * Review model-generated code and architectures for vulnerabilities and security risks.
 * Identify bugs, edge cases, and security-related failure modes.
 * Compare outputs from multiple frontier models to assess strengths and weaknesses.
 * Apply professional engineering judgment to realistic security engineering scenarios.
 * Work independently and asynchronously to meet deadlines while improving AI model performance.


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