Vulnerability response at the speed of AI. Cogent. Backed by Greylock.
About the role
We're hiring a Security Researcher to build the offensive side of our research - the attacker our defensive agents have to beat. You'll sit in Research and own the loop that turns real red team tradecraft into AI capability, shaping how offensive expertise becomes autonomous capability rather than just supplying the expertise. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- 6+ years of experience in offensive security, red team operations, or adversary emulation
- Hands-on operator who has run full-chain operations end-to-end - initial access through post-exploitation - across Windows, Active Directory, and on-prem environments
- Depth in Command and Control frameworks (for example Mythic) and payload development, with real detection-evasion experience against EDR
- A builder who writes code (for example Python) to turn manual tradecraft into repeatable, automatable capability rather than one-off operations
- Experience standing up and operating realistic test environments or cyber ranges with production defenses in place (EDR, SIEM, logging)
More about this role
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. We partner with Fortune 500 companies to secure some of the most complex production environments in the world.
We're backed by Greylock & Bain Capital Ventures, 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
We're hiring a Security Researcher to build the offensive side of our research -...
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