Vulnerability response at the speed of AI. Cogent. Backed by Greylock.
About the role
We're hiring a Forward Deployed Agent Engineer to design, build, and deploy mission-critical AI agents that operate in complex customer environments and drive measurable security outcomes. This is a highly cross-functional, forward-deployed role - you'll work directly with customers to understand their needs, adapt our platform to their environment, and continuously iterate on solutions that scale to millions of real-world events.
What they're looking for
- 2+ years of professional software engineering experience, ideally in high-velocity or customer-facing environments
- Proficiency in Python and TypeScript, with strong skills in asynchronous programming and building robust data integrations
- Strong debugging and systems thinking abilities, comfortable tracing issues across multiple layers of a stack
- Clear communication skills, with the ability to translate between technical and non-technical contexts
- Thrive in ambiguity, take ownership end-to-end, and prioritize customer outcomes over output
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. Our 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 needed to make 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 our team includes people from:
Top universities like Stanford, Berkeley, Penn, Duke, Carnegie Mellon, and Waterloo
High-growth companies like Scale AI, Databricks, Stripe, Tesla, and Coinbase
Cybersecurity leaders from Wiz, Abnormal AI, and Zscaler
Research labs like DeepMind and SAIL
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