Cogent Security
Software Engineer - Applied AI
$100K–$300K
San Francisco, CA +1 · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Sep 14, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
New York, NY - Experience
- Multiple years of relevant experience; no specific number of years stated.
About the job
Build and deploy AI agents and platform components that automate cybersecurity workflows, especially vulnerability management.
What you'll do
- Design and launch AI agents with design customers; break enterprise security workflows into tasks that can be automated.
- Build reusable LLM-powered ranking, retrieval, and search components, and develop frameworks to train, evaluate, and stress-test ML systems.
- Support engineering culture through onboarding, mentoring, and contributions to engineering, operations, and recruiting initiatives.
What they ask for
- Multiple years of relevant experience developing and deploying AI-driven systems, with a track record of production-grade solutions.
- Expertise in machine learning, deep learning, and AI models, including applying them to scalable production systems.
- Experience designing and deploying agentic systems and autonomous agents and integrating them into products.
- Ability to address real-world scale and performance challenges in production.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with reinforcement learning, natural language processing, computer vision, and large-scale generative models.
Pay
USD 100,000 - USD 300,000 annually; base salary
Tools
LLMs, reinforcement learning, natural language processing, computer vision
AI focus
Applied AI for cybersecurity: developing autonomous agents for vulnerability management, agentic workflows, long-term reasoning and planning, and LLM-powered ranking, retrieval, and search.
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