Application Security Analyst
Posted Today by Alignerr
Negotiable
Undetermined
Remote
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The Application Security Analyst role involves collaborating with leading AI research labs to enhance AI systems' security by analyzing real-world application security scenarios. The position requires hands-on expertise in identifying vulnerabilities and developing remediation strategies to train AI models. The role is fully remote, offering flexible hours between 10 to 40 hours per week. Candidates will leverage their security knowledge to contribute to the development of safer AI technologies.
Key Responsibilities:
- Analyze realistic application security scenarios spanning code, APIs, and system behavior
- Classify vulnerabilities including authentication flaws, injection risks, authorization issues, and business logic weaknesses
- Evaluate the quality of secure coding practices and proposed remediation strategies
- Distinguish genuine exploitability from theoretical or low-impact risk
- Help build and validate security-focused reasoning datasets that teach AI how to accurately assess application risk
- Provide structured, clearly written security analysis that AI systems can learn from
Key Skills:
- 2+ years of hands-on experience in application, product, or software security
- Solid familiarity with the OWASP Top 10 and how vulnerabilities manifest in real production environments
- Able to think like an attacker — understanding not just what the flaw is, but how it could be exploited
- Strong written communication skills with the ability to reason through complex security problems clearly and concisely
- Self-motivated and comfortable working independently on task-based assignments
- Experience with penetration testing, bug bounty programs, or secure code review (nice to have)
- Background in API security, cloud security, or DevSecOps (nice to have)
- Familiarity with AI workflows or data labeling projects (nice to have)
Salary (Rate): £38.00/hr
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Application Security Analyst (AI Training)
About The Role
We're partnering with the world's leading AI research labs to build smarter, safer AI systems — and we need security professionals who understand how software actually breaks in the real world. As an Application Security Analyst, you'll work on realistic, production-grade security scenarios to help AI models learn how to assess vulnerabilities, prioritize risk, and reason about remediation strategies. Your hands-on security expertise will directly shape the next generation of AI systems.
Organization: Alignerr
Type: Hourly Contract
Location: Remote
Commitment: 10–40 hours/week
What You'll Do
- Analyze realistic application security scenarios spanning code, APIs, and system behavior
- Classify vulnerabilities including authentication flaws, injection risks, authorization issues, and business logic weaknesses
- Evaluate the quality of secure coding practices and proposed remediation strategies
- Distinguish genuine exploitability from theoretical or low-impact risk
- Help build and validate security-focused reasoning datasets that teach AI how to accurately assess application risk
- Provide structured, clearly written security analysis that AI systems can learn from
Who You Are
- 2+ years of hands-on experience in application, product, or software security
- Solid familiarity with the OWASP Top 10 and how vulnerabilities manifest in real production environments
- Able to think like an attacker — understanding not just what the flaw is, but how it could be exploited
- Strong written communication skills with the ability to reason through complex security problems clearly and concisely
- Self-motivated and comfortable working independently on task-based assignments
Nice to Have
- Experience with penetration testing, bug bounty programs, or secure code review
- Background in API security, cloud security, or DevSecOps
- Familiarity with AI workflows or data labeling projects
Why Join Us
- Work on frontier AI projects alongside top AI research labs and teams
- Fully remote and async — work on your own schedule from anywhere
- Freelance perks: autonomy, flexibility, and collaboration with a global expert community
- Apply your real-world security knowledge to a domain that's genuinely shaping the future
- Potential for ongoing work and contract extension