What are the responsibilities and job description for the Incident Response Analyst position at Alignerr?
Incident Response Analyst (AI Training)
About The Role
We're partnering with leading AI research labs to build and refine AI systems designed to understand and respond to real-world cybersecurity threats. As an Incident Response Analyst, you'll bring your hands-on security operations experience to help ensure these AI models think and respond like seasoned defenders — not just algorithms.
Your expertise in SOC workflows, alert triage, and digital investigations will directly shape how AI handles the next generation of cyber threats.
About The Role
We're partnering with leading AI research labs to build and refine AI systems designed to understand and respond to real-world cybersecurity threats. As an Incident Response Analyst, you'll bring your hands-on security operations experience to help ensure these AI models think and respond like seasoned defenders — not just algorithms.
Your expertise in SOC workflows, alert triage, and digital investigations will directly shape how AI handles the next generation of cyber threats.
- Organization: Alignerr
- Type: Hourly Contract
- Location: Remote
- Commitment: 10–40 hours/week
- Analyze realistic security events, alerts, and incident cases to evaluate AI-generated responses
- Assess impact, root cause, and recommended remediation steps for simulated and real-world scenarios
- Review and critique detection rules, alerting pipelines, and investigative playbooks
- Verify that AI-generated incident analysis accurately reflects how real security operations teams work
- Provide structured, expert feedback that directly improves AI model accuracy and reliability
- Work independently and asynchronously on your own schedule
- 2 years of experience in SOC analysis, incident response, or security operations
- Hands-on experience with SIEM platforms, alert queues, and investigation tooling
- Skilled at separating meaningful threats from background noise — you know signal from noise
- Strong written communication skills with the ability to document findings clearly
- Detail-oriented, analytical, and comfortable working independently
- Experience with threat hunting, forensic investigation, or red/blue team operations
- Familiarity with frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK, NIST, or PICERL
- Background in cloud security, endpoint detection, or network forensics
- Prior experience evaluating or working alongside AI-driven security tools
- Work on frontier AI systems with real-world impact on cybersecurity
- Fully remote and flexible — work on your own schedule
- Freelance perks: autonomy, variety, and global collaboration
- Contribute to meaningful work that makes AI smarter and safer for defenders everywhere
- Potential for ongoing work and contract extension
Salary : $30 - $60