Cogent
Agent Engineer (Member of Technical Staff)
San Francisco, CA · Staff+
Sponsorship not specified$100k-$300kDetected 337 days ago
TypeScriptPythonDatabricksAgentic AICybersecuritySOC OperationsResearchCommunication
About the role
- This is a highly cross-functional, forward-deployed role - you'll work directly with customers to understand their needs, adapt our platform to their environment, and continuously iterate on solutions that scale to millions of real-world events.
- Your work will directly shape how AI agents detect threats, triage incidents, and automate security workflows for some of the world's most sophisticated organizations.
- This role is ideal for engineers who thrive in high-impact environments, love solving hard technical problems, and want to see the tangible results of their work in the field.
Responsibilities
- Design & Deploy AI Agents - Build security-focused AI agents that can reason over large datasets, interact with security systems, and reliably handle complex real-world workflows.
- Drive Platform Evolution - Identify cross-customer trends and translate field insights into platform improvements and new capabilities.
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.
- 2+ years of professional software engineering experience, ideally in high-velocity or customer-facing environments.
- Proficiency in Python and TypeScript, with strong skills in asynchronous programming and building robust data integrations.
- Strong debugging and systems thinking abilities
- comfortable tracing issues across multiple layers of a stack.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate between technical and non-technical contexts.
- Thrive in ambiguity, take ownership end-to-end, and prioritize customer outcomes over output.
Compensation
- The standard base salary range for this position is $100,000 - $300,000 annually.
Benefits
- Bonus Points For:
Company info
- 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
- Own Implementations End-to-End - Lead technical delivery for new and existing customers, from data ingestion and transformation pipelines to configuration, workflow design, and feature extension.
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