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Offensive Security Analyst (Structured / Non-Exploit)

Alignerr · Chicago, IL · 4 days ago
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About the role

This role is about structured adversarial reasoning, not exploit development. You'll work with realistic threat scenarios to help AI systems learn how attacks unfold, where defenses break down, and how risk propagates across modern infrastructure.

Responsibilities

  • Analyze attack paths, kill chains, and adversary strategies across realistic, production-style environments
  • Identify and classify weaknesses, misconfigurations, and defensive gaps
  • Review red-team scenarios and intrusion narratives for accuracy, completeness, and adversarial realism
  • Generate, label, and validate adversarial reasoning data used to train and evaluate AI systems
  • Clearly articulate attack chains, impact, and risk tradeoffs in structured formats
  • Work independently and asynchronously on task-based assignments at your own pace

Requirements

  • 2+ years of hands-on experience in penetration testing, red teaming, or a blue-team role with deep attack knowledge
  • Understand how real attacks unfold in production environments — not just theory
  • Able to break down complex attack chains and explain them clearly in writing
  • Detail-oriented, methodical, and comfortable working without hand-holding
  • No exploit development skills required — this role is about reasoning, analysis, and structured thinking

Qualifications

  • Nice to have: experience with threat modeling, adversary simulation, or attack surface analysis, familiarity with frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK, Cyber Kill Chain, or OWASP, background in security architecture, incident response, or threat intelligence, prior experience reviewing or annotating technical content for quality or training purposes

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