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Incident Response Analyst
AlignerrMexico City, MexicoPosted 0mo ago
Cybersecurity Analyst
Job Description
Incident Response Analyst (AI Training)
About The Role
We're partnering with leading AI research labs to build the next generation of security-focused AI systems — and we need experienced incident responders to help get it right. Your hands-on knowledge of real-world security operations will directly shape how AI understands, investigates, and responds to modern cyber threats.
This is a unique opportunity to move beyond the SOC and influence the future of AI-driven security — on your own schedule, from anywhere.
About The Role
We're partnering with leading AI research labs to build the next generation of security-focused AI systems — and we need experienced incident responders to help get it right. Your hands-on knowledge of real-world security operations will directly shape how AI understands, investigates, and responds to modern cyber threats.
This is a unique opportunity to move beyond the SOC and influence the future of AI-driven security — on your own schedule, from anywhere.
- Organization: Alignerr
- Type: Hourly Contract
- Location: Remote
- Commitment: 10–40 hours/week
- Analyze realistic security events, alerts, and incident cases to evaluate AI-generated investigations
- Assess AI outputs for accuracy in root cause analysis, impact determination, and remediation guidance
- Review and validate detection rules, alerting pipelines, and investigative playbooks
- Identify gaps where AI responses diverge from how real response teams operate
- Provide structured, expert feedback that directly improves AI reasoning in security contexts
- Work independently and asynchronously on task-based assignments
- 2+ years of hands-on experience in SOC operations, incident response, or security engineering
- Comfortable working across SIEM platforms, alert queues, and investigation tooling
- Skilled at triaging alerts and distinguishing meaningful threats from noise
- Able to clearly articulate the reasoning behind incident decisions in writing
- Detail-oriented with a strong sense of how real-world response workflows operate
- Experience with threat hunting, digital forensics, or red/blue team operations
- Familiarity with frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK, NIST, or SANS IR methodology
- Exposure to cloud-native security environments (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Prior experience evaluating or working alongside AI-driven security tools
- Work on frontier AI projects with top-tier research labs and make a direct impact
- Fully remote and flexible — complete tasks on your own schedule
- Freelance perks: autonomy, variety, and collaboration with a global expert community
- Apply your security expertise in a high-impact, intellectually stimulating new context
- Potential for ongoing work and contract extension as projects evolve