San Francisco, California, United States · Hybrid
$100k–$300k/yr
About Cogent Cogent is an Applied AI Lab building the next generation of AI agents for cybersecurity. AI has fundamentally changed how attacks happen, allowing malicious actors to operate at unprecedented speed and scale…
Skills: Fullstack development, React, Vue, Angular, TypeScript
San Francisco, California, United States · Remote OK
$100k–$300k/yr
About Cogent Cogent is an Applied AI Lab building the next generation of AI agents for cybersecurity. AI has fundamentally changed how attacks happen, allowing malicious actors to operate at unprecedented speed and scale…
Skills: React, TypeScript, Frontend architecture, Component libraries, Build systems
San Francisco, California, United States · Hybrid
$100k–$300k/yr
About Cogent Cogent is an Applied AI Lab building the next generation of AI agents for cybersecurity. AI has fundamentally changed how attacks happen, allowing malicious actors to operate at unprecedented speed and scale…
Skills: Data Engineering, ETL, Distributed Computing, SQL, Kubernetes
San Francisco, California, United States · Hybrid
$100k–$300k/yr
About Cogent Cogent is an Applied AI Lab building the next generation of AI agents for cybersecurity. AI has fundamentally changed how attacks happen, allowing malicious actors to operate at unprecedented speed and scale…
Skills: Python, TypeScript, Asynchronous programming, Data integration, Systems thinking
San Francisco, California, United States · Hybrid
$100k–$300k/yr
About Cogent Cogent is an Applied AI Lab building the next generation of AI agents for cybersecurity. AI has fundamentally changed how attacks happen, allowing malicious actors to operate at unprecedented speed and scale…
Skills: Infrastructure Engineering, AWS, Clickhouse, Postgres, Spark
Hardeeville, South Carolina, United States · Remote OK
$100k–$300k/yr
About Cogent Cogent is an Applied AI Lab building the next generation of AI agents for cybersecurity. AI has fundamentally changed how attacks happen, allowing malicious actors to operate at unprecedented speed and scale…
Skills: Security Engineering, Vulnerability Management, Python, Automation, Cybersecurity
San Francisco, California, United States · Hybrid
$100k–$300k/yr
About Cogent Cogent is an Applied AI Lab building the next generation of AI agents for cybersecurity. AI has fundamentally changed how attacks happen, allowing malicious actors to operate at unprecedented speed and scale…
Skills: Machine learning, Deep learning, Artificial intelligence, Agentic systems, Cybersecurity
San Francisco, California, United States · On-site
$100k–$300k/yr
About Cogent Cogent is an Applied AI Lab building the next generation of AI agents for cybersecurity. AI has fundamentally changed how attacks happen, allowing malicious actors to operate at unprecedented speed and scale…
Skills: Aurora RDS, Clickhouse, Kafka, AWS MSK, Postgres
San Francisco, California, United States · On-site
$100k–$300k/yr
About Cogent Cogent is an Applied AI Lab building the next generation of AI agents for cybersecurity. AI has fundamentally changed how attacks happen, allowing malicious actors to operate at unprecedented speed and scale…
Skills: CI/CD, Build systems, GitHub Actions, Harness, Spacelift
Hardeeville, South Carolina, United States · Remote OK
$100k–$300k/yr
About Cogent Cogent is an Applied AI Lab building the next generation of AI agents for cybersecurity. AI has fundamentally changed how attacks happen, allowing malicious actors to operate at unprecedented speed and scale…
Skills: Product Security, Application Security, Secure SDLC, Threat Modeling, SAST/DAST
Hardeeville, South Carolina, United States · Remote OK
$100k–$300k/yr
About Cogent Cogent is an Applied AI Lab building the next generation of AI agents for cybersecurity. AI has fundamentally changed how attacks happen, allowing malicious actors to operate at unprecedented speed and scale…
Skills: Endpoint Hardening, Corporate Identity, SaaS Security, Zero Trust, Python
Hardeeville, South Carolina, United States · Remote OK
About Cogent Security Cogent is an Applied AI Lab building the next generation of AI agents for cybersecurity. AI has fundamentally changed how attacks happen, allowing malicious actors to operate at unprecedented speed …
Skills: Vulnerability Management, Solution Design, Enterprise Deployment, API Integration, Stakeholder Management
Hardeeville, South Carolina, United States · Remote OK
About Cogent Security Cogent is an Applied AI Lab building the next generation of AI agents for cybersecurity. AI has fundamentally changed how attacks happen, allowing malicious actors to operate at unprecedented speed …
Skills: Technical Sales, Cybersecurity, Proof of Concept (POC), Vulnerability Management, Enterprise Software
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You will design and implement AI-driven product experiences for enterprise customers, including dashboards and internal tools. Additionally, you will help shape the technical roadmap and foster a strong engineering culture within the team.
Candidates must have 5+ years of professional experience working across the full software stack with expertise in backend systems and modern frontend frameworks. Strong proficiency in API design, containerization, and cloud deployment pipelines is required.
Cogent is an Applied AI Lab building the next generation of AI agents for cybersecurity. AI has fundamentally changed how attacks happen, allowing malicious actors to operate at unprecedented speed and scale. Cogent’s "AI Taskforce" assesses petabytes of enterprise data to remediate these issues before critical breaches occur.
To stay at the cutting edge, we blend frontier research with real-world execution. Alongside our core product work, Cogent Research serves as our applied AI lab, providing the research horsepower needed to make truly agentic security workflows a reality.
Since coming out of stealth, Cogent has experienced rapid growth. We partner with Fortune 500 companies to secure some of the most complex production environments in the world.
We’re backed by Greylock and we’ve built a team with the best minds in applied AI. Our team is comprised of people from:
Top universities like Stanford, Berkeley, Penn, Duke, Carnegie Mellon, Waterloo
Unicorn, high-growth companies like Scale AI, Databricks, Stripe, Tesla, Coinbase
World class cybersecurity experts from Wiz, Abnormal AI, Zscaler
Preeminent research labs like Deepmind and SAIL
Cogent is building 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 Senior and Staff Engineers who are excited to build in the Applied AI space.
You're a technical founder type who is willing to deep dive and get your hands dirty to build the best product.
This also means that you will have a high level of autonomy and responsibility in shaping the technical roadmap and product strategy.
Design and implement Cogent’s AI product experience for enterprises that run based on our multi-tenant cloud and single-tenant enterprise platform.
The first products that you will be involved in launching are: customer portal, knowledge engine, internal labeling tool, and external customer dashboard.
World-class AI needs to be backed up by intuitive UI to be truly impactful to our customers.
You will own large parts of the customer experience that will ultimately help our customers protect their organizations from attackers.
Onboard, support and uplevel future team members
Participate in, provide feedback on, and iterate interview process as we scale the team up
Actively contribute to Engineering Excellence, Operational Excellence and Recruiting initiatives
5+ years of professional experience as a hands-on engineer, working across the full software stack and leading the development of scalable, high-quality applications
Expertise in designing, developing, and maintaining backend systems, including microservices, APIs, and databases, to support modern web applications
Strong experience with frontend development, including modern JavaScript frameworks (React, Vue, Angular) and web technologies (HTML, CSS, TypeScript)
Ability to work across the stack, integrating backend services with dynamic, user-facing frontends to deliver seamless, performant product experiences
Proficient in API design (RESTful, GraphQL, or gRPC) and integrating with both internal and external systems
Familiarity with containerization and orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) and deployment pipelines (CI/CD) in cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure)
Solid experience in Agile development processes, including code reviews, sprint planning, and collaborative cross-functional team work to deliver full-stack product features
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.
Autonomous cyberdefense for a new age of security. Finding risks is easy. Fixing them is hard.
Cogent is an applied AI lab building AI systems for enterprise cybersecurity teams. We focus on cybersecurity because it affects everyone—the reliability of the services we use, the privacy of our data, and the safety of the organizations we depend on. Our mission is to prevent breaches using autonomous AI systems that continuously secure systems against AI-armed adversaries operating at machine speed. Founded by researchers and operators from Google DeepMind, Abnormal Security, and Coinbase. Backed by Greylock Partners.
Offices: San Francisco, California 94105, US
Autonomous cyberdefense for a new age of security. Finding risks is easy. Fixing them is hard.
Cogent is an applied AI lab building AI systems for enterprise cybersecurity teams. We focus on cybersecurity because it affects everyone—the reliability of the services we use, the privacy of our data, and the safety of the organizations we depend on. Our mission is to prevent breaches using autonomous AI systems that continuously secure systems against AI-armed adversaries operating at machine speed. Founded by researchers and operators from Google DeepMind, Abnormal Security, and Coinbase. Backed by Greylock Partners.
Offices: San Francisco, California 94105, US
