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Cogent

Software Engineer - Applied AI

new york, NY

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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.

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