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 vulnerabilities. The analyst will evaluate security scenarios, classify vulnerabilities, and contribute to the development of AI models that can assess and prioritize risks. This position requires hands-on security expertise and strong communication skills to effectively convey complex security issues. The role is fully remote, offering flexible hours between 10 to 40 hours per week.
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