Cogent Security
Forward Deployed Agent Engineer
$100K–$300K
San Francisco, CA +1 · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Sep 14, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
New York, NY - Experience
- 2+ years of professional software engineering experience; ideally in high-velocity or customer-facing environments.
About the job
Designs, deploys, and improves security-focused AI agents in customer environments to detect threats, triage incidents, and automate security workflows.
What you'll do
- Build and deploy AI agents, integrating models and security systems for real-world workflows.
- Lead customer implementations end-to-end, including data onboarding, pipelines, configuration, and production deployment.
- Use customer feedback and field insights to improve the agent platform and ensure reliability and performance.
What they ask for
- 2+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Proficiency in Python and TypeScript, including asynchronous programming and robust data integrations.
- Strong debugging and systems thinking abilities across multiple layers of a stack.
- Clear communication skills; able to translate between technical and non-technical contexts.
Nice to have
- Experience with multi-modal AI models, enterprise SaaS, security operations, or behavioral analytics.
- Familiarity with large-scale data ingestion, transformation pipelines, and real-time processing.
Pay
$100,000 - $300,000 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
Python, TypeScript
AI focus
Build security-focused AI agents; experiment with, evaluate, and integrate text, voice, and multi-modal models into production.
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