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[Remote] Security Engineer — Cryptanalysis / Reverse Engineering

Remote Full-time Now Hiring

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. AfterQuery Experts is seeking a Security Engineer specializing in cryptanalysis and reverse engineering to support frontier AI research. The role involves designing technical scenarios, authoring expert reference solutions and grading rubrics, and evaluating AI-generated outputs for correctness, depth, and domain judgment.

Responsibilities

  • Design realistic technical scenarios and problem sets within your track
  • Author expert-level reference solutions and grading rubrics
  • Evaluate AI-generated outputs for correctness, depth, and domain judgment

Skills

  • - Currently or recently active in the field — hands-on, not purely academic-adjacent
  • - Strong written communication — you'll be authoring technical explanations and structured feedback, not just doing the work itself
  • - Comfortable with independent, asynchronous, remote work
  • - Meets the experience and education bar described in Full Description
  • - Prior research publication record, open-source contributions, or recognized work product in your track's domain
  • - Experience evaluating, reviewing, or grading others' technical work (peer review, code review, grading, editing)
  • - Track-specific bonus signal Security: reverse engineering, cryptanalysis, CTF experience

Benefits

  • Work directly on frontier AI research problems in your area of deep expertise
  • Fully remote, flexible, asynchronous — fits around existing work

Company Overview

  • AfterQuery Experts, a platform by AfterQuery (backed by Y Combinator and BoxGroup) connects over 50,000 experts to remote, flexible data projects with frontier AI labs. It was founded in 2025, and is headquartered in , with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is https://experts.afterquery.com.