Cogent Security

Forward Deployed Agent Engineer

Cogent Security
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22 days ago
San Francisco, CA, USA or New York, NY, USAEntry Level / Mid Level

Base Salary

$100k - $250k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and deploy security-focused AI agents that reason over large datasets, interact with security systems, and automate complex workflows.
  • Lead customer implementations from data ingestion and transformation through configuration, workflow design, feature extension, and production deployment.
  • Experiment with, evaluate, and integrate text, voice, and multimodal AI models into production environments.
  • Work directly with customer security teams to integrate agents with their tools, processes, and data sources.
  • Translate cross-customer insights into improvements and new capabilities for the core agent platform.
  • Debug issues across multiple layers and ensure enterprise-grade reliability and performance.

Requirements

  • At least 2 years of professional software engineering experience, ideally in high-velocity or customer-facing environments.
  • Proficiency in Python and TypeScript, including asynchronous programming and robust data integrations.
  • Strong debugging and systems thinking abilities with the ability to trace issues across multiple layers of a stack.
  • Clear communication skills for translating between technical and non-technical contexts.
  • Ability to thrive in ambiguity, take end-to-end ownership, and prioritize customer outcomes.
  • Preferred experience with multimodal AI models, enterprise SaaS, security operations, behavioral analytics, large-scale data ingestion and transformation pipelines, or real-time processing.

Benefits

  • California-based applicants are offered a stated base salary range of $100,000–$250,000 annually.
  • Certain roles may be eligible for variable compensation, equity, and benefits.

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About Cogent Security

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