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# Software Engineer - Applied AI at Cogent Security

- **Company:** Cogent Security
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-09-14
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-19
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/cogent-security/8762ddb1-fad6-40e0-90a9-c239d1cbdb17

## Job description

## 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. 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

## About the Role

As we onboard our first design partners, Cogent is launching 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 AI/ML Engineers who are excited to build in the Applied AI space.

## What You’ll Do & Achieve

- 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

## What You’ll Bring

- 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

For California Based Applicants 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.

## About Cogent Security

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Cogent Security is an applied AI lab building autonomous AI agents that discover, assess, and remediate enterprise vulnerabilities at machine speed.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed / Series A; $11M total funding)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2024
- **Founders**: Vineet Edupuganti (CEO), Geng Sng (CTO), Thanos Baskous (VP Engineering) [cogent.com/about-us](https://www.cogent.com/about-us)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Cybersecurity – specifically vulnerability management and agentic AI for security remediation.
- **Target customers**: Enterprise cybersecurity teams (B2B, mid-market to large enterprises).
- **Mission**: “Prevent breaches using autonomous AI systems that continuously secure systems against AI-armed adversaries operating at machine speed.” [cogent.com](https://www.cogent.com/)

## Products & Services
- **[Cogent Platform]**: An AI-agent workforce that handles the full vulnerability lifecycle. Modules include **Discover** (identify vulnerable software within minutes of a disclosure), **Assess** (risk scoring based on business context), **Remediate** (from assisted to fully autonomous fix deployment), and **Report** (verified evidence-backed reporting). Type: SaaS platform with embedded AI agents. [cogent.com](https://www.cogent.com/)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company).
- **Key Metric**: Total funding $11M – Seed round ($11M) led by Greylock Partners (August 2025); subsequent Series A led by Bain Capital Ventures with additional investors. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/cogentsecurity)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Greylock Partners, Bain Capital Ventures. Customers include Alteryx (CISO Lucas Moody), CSC Generation (CEO Justin Yoshimura), University of the Pacific (CISO Mo Bal). [cogent.com/about-us](https://www.cogent.com/about-us)
- **Growth Signals**: 39 employees (as of mid-2025), +14% monthly headcount growth, 29 active job postings, reported 3x increase in vulnerability team output and 97% reduction in exposure window for critical vulnerabilities. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/cogentsecurity)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Agentic AI approach** that not only detects but also investigates, coordinates, and verifies fixes – reducing the manual burden on security teams.
- **Founding team** from Google DeepMind, Abnormal Security, and Coinbase, bringing deep AI and security expertise.
- **Rapid time-to-value**: 3 hours from onboarding to full vulnerability assessment.
- **Strong customer satisfaction**: 4.9/5 rating from 1,200+ reviews. [cogent.com/about-us](https://www.cogent.com/about-us)

## Strategic Focus
- Scaling AI agent capabilities to cover more vulnerability types and integrate deeper into enterprise workflows.
- Expanding the commercial team (Sales, Solutions Engineering, TAMs) to capture growing demand.
- Advancing research through **Cogent Research**, tackling open problems in dependable autonomy and AI × security. [cogent.com](https://www.cogent.com/)

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Values include customer centricity, intentionality, ambition for excellence, extreme ownership, velocity, and intellectual honesty. [cogent.com/company/careers](https://www.cogent.com/company/careers)
- **Remote/Hybrid**: In-person in San Francisco and New York, plus remote options within the US. [cogent.com/company/careers](https://www.cogent.com/company/careers)
- **Engineering Culture**: Engineers and AI researchers sit together; the distance from idea to production is measured in days. Emphasis on shipping production software, not just research.
- **Notable Perks**: 12-week AI Fellowship for graduate researchers and early-career ML engineers; team hails from top companies like Coinbase, Databricks, AWS, Zscaler, and HashiCorp. [cogent.com/company/careers](https://www.cogent.com/company/careers)
- **Growth Opportunity**: Rapidly scaling startup with significant funding, strong customer traction, and a mission-driven focus on one of cybersecurity’s hardest problems.

## Sources
1. [cogent.com](https://www.cogent.com/) – Company overview, product details, customer testimonials
2. [cogent.com/about-us](https://www.cogent.com/about-us) – Founders, mission, team background
3. [cogent.com/company/careers](https://www.cogent.com/company/careers) – Culture, remote policy, AI Fellowship, values
4. [linkedin.com/company/cogentsecurity](https://www.linkedin.com/company/cogentsecurity) – Employee count, funding, office locations, job postings
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/cogent-security](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/cogent-security) – Active job openings
6. Pulse 2.0 (2025-07-16) – “Cogent Security: $11 Million Raised For AI Taskforce For Vulnerability Management”
7. FinSMEs (2025-07-15) – “Cogent Security Raises $11M in Funding”

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