Software Security Engineer | $70/hr Remote

Crossing Hurdles is seeking a Software Security Engineer to focus on cybersecurity tasks. The role involves designing benchmark tasks, developing exploit scripts, and implementing security patches to enhance software security.

Responsibilities:

• Design benchmark cybersecurity tasks by defining vulnerability classes, exploit behavior, and difficulty levels
• Create or validate runnable code environments that demonstrate trust boundary violations
• Develop exploit scripts to validate security vulnerabilities and document unsafe behaviors clearly
• Implement and verify patches that prevent exploits and confirm the effectiveness of security fixes
• Produce detailed task metadata including severity mapping, code locations, impact analysis, and remediation summaries
• Review datasets and tasks to ensure accuracy of paths, code references, labels, and exploit validation
• Reconstruct reasoning processes behind model outputs to improve AI understanding of software security tasks
• Contribute structured technical documentation supporting dataset quality and model benchmarking

Requirements:

• Professional experience in software engineering with a focus on cybersecurity, vulnerability research, or secure software development
• Academic background in computer science, software engineering, or a related technical field
• Strong proficiency in programming languages commonly used in open-source software projects
• Familiarity with version control workflows including repositories, pull requests, and issue tracking
• Ability to analyze vulnerabilities and articulate technical reasoning in clear written form
• Experience working with codebases and identifying security weaknesses