# Forward Deployed Agent Engineer at Cogent

- Company: Cogent
- What the company does: Vulnerability response at the speed of AI. Cogent. Backed by Greylock.
- Company website: https://www.cogent.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco, CA
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $100K to $250K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-14
- Apply by: 2026-10-29
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/cogent-security/e038692d-ca5c-4df4-8ea2-b472c2a6d99b
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/cogent-forward-deployed-agent-engineer/

## 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

Tags: Engineering