About Cogent Security

Cogent Security is on a mission to stop breaches and prevent cybercrime by innovating at the frontier of generative AI systems. We are building the world’s first AI cyber taskforce, composed of AI agents capable of human-caliber reasoning and execution of cybersecurity tasks, that autonomously protects organizations from emerging threats. The early adopters of our technology include some of the world’s most important institutions, spanning public companies, elite universities, and Fortune 500 corporations across industries. 

Cogent was founded by a seasoned team of former engineering and product leaders, who bring decades of experience across cybersecurity and technology. The early team is fully in-person in San Francisco, and consists of the top software engineering and machine learning talent from leading companies such as Abnormal Security, Coinbase, Microsoft, Tesla, and more. To support our ambitious growth plans, we recently raised a large Seed round from top investors and angels across AI, cybersecurity, and enterprise software. 

As we execute on our mission, we are constantly pushing ourselves to ACHIEVe:

• Ambition for Excellence 

  • We work backwards from the way things should be and constantly measure our progress against it

• Customer Centricity 

  • We obsess over the problems our customers face and relentlessly innovate to find the best solutions

• Intellectual Honesty 

  • We embrace hard conversations and actively seek the truth

• Intentionality 

  • We exhibit good judgment and are thoughtful about tradeoffs

• Extreme Ownership 

  • We take pride in our work and never say the words “not my problem”

• Velocity / Bias for Action

  • We don’t leave for tomorrow what can be done today

As we extend our founding team, we are looking for talented, ambitious individuals who are excited to build in the Applied AI space!

About the Role

As we onboard our first design partners, Cogent is launching the world's first AI cyber taskforce, which is composed of AI agents capable of human-caliber reasoning for cybersecurity tasks. We are looking for talented, ambitious AI/ML Engineers who are excited to build in the Applied AI space.

What You’ll Do & Achieve

• Architect and launch the world’s first AI Cyber Taskforce

  • Work closely with our design customers to design and launch our flagship AI agents that are capable of automating tasks in vulnerability management

  • Understand business goals, product and technology strategies, and customer requirements and implement business-critical AI systems to achieve them

  • Identify appropriate datasets and data representations to support system development

  • Decompose existing enterprise security workflows into sub-tasks that can be modeled as an autonomous system

  • Experiment with the latest advancements in long-term reasoning and planning to design systems that allows Cogent to evolve the data flywheel of our AI products from initially highly supervised to eventually autonomous and managed by exception

• Build and extend Cogent’s Gen AI Platform

  • Implement reusable system components for ranking, retrieval and search systems powered by LLMs for agentic automation

  • Put in place frameworks to train, evaluate, and stress-test ML systems, and extend improvements on Cogent’s Gen AI platform

  • Stay on top of and when appropriate, propose incorporating cutting edge developments in ML and Gen AI into Cogent’s AI systems

• Help create a robust engineering culture at Cogent

  • Onboard, support and uplevel future team members

  • Mentor and grow future junior team members

  • Actively contribute to Engineering Excellence, Operational Excellence and Recruiting initiatives

What You’ll Bring

• Multiple years of relevant experience in developing and deploying AI-driven systems, with a proven track record of architecting practical, production-grade solutions that solve real-world problems

• Expertise in machine learning, deep learning, and AI models, with a deep understanding of how to apply these technologies to build scalable, performant systems in production environments

• Experience with designing and deploying agentic systems and autonomous agents, as well as integrating these AI components into larger applications or products

• Ability to address and navigate real-world scale and performance challenges, ensuring that AI models and systems are efficient, robust, and performant under production constraints

• Familiarity with cutting-edge AI technologies, including reinforcement learning, natural language processing, computer vision, and large-scale generative models

• Proven ability to work iteratively and collaborate with cross-functional teams to evolve AI models and systems that meet evolving product needs and user expectations

• Passion for staying at the forefront of AI advancements, continuously learning and applying emerging techniques to improve product performance and drive innovation

For California Based Applicants

The standard base salary range for this position is $100,000 - $300,000 annually. Compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, job level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for variable compensation, equity, and benefits.

We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse company. We do not discriminate based on gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, civil or family status, age, disability, or race.