Cogent Security · 2 months ago
Applied AI Engineer (Member of Technical Staff)
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
$100K/yr - $300K/yr
4+ years expCogent Security is an Applied AI Lab focused on developing AI agents for cybersecurity. The role involves architecting and launching AI systems for vulnerability management and contributing to the engineering culture by mentoring team members and implementing AI-driven solutions.
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Responsibilities
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
Qualification
Required
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
Benefits
Variable compensation
Equity
Benefits
Company
Cogent Security
Cogent Security has created the first AI taskforce for vulnerability management.
11-50 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
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$11MKey Investors
Greylock
2025-07-15Seed· $11M
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