Cogent
Cogent AI Fellowship (Member of Technical Staff)
San Francisco, CA · Staff+
Sponsorship not specified$100k-$300kDetected 78 days ago
DatabricksAgentic AIResearch
About the role
- Cogent Research is investing equally in two core research areas.
- The first is agentic security: as AI agents are deployed in production, real-world incidents have shown that prompt-level guardrails are insufficient.
- Agent behavior requires guarantees that are non-bypassable, AI-synthesized, and human-auditable.
Responsibilities
- Partner with applied AI, agent, and platform engineers to translate research advances into production capabilities.
- Work with design partners and security leaders to ground the work in the workflows security engineers actually run.
- Build evaluation harnesses and benchmarks that capture what "verified-correct" or "policy-compliant" means in messy, real-world security environments.
Requirements
- Auto-remediation can only operate safely at the required level of autonomy when agentic security guarantees are in place.
Nice to have
- Experience with vulnerability detection/remediation or secure-by-construction systems.
Skills
- A strong publication record in top conferences or journals, or comparable open-source or artifact contributions.
- A recently completed PhD in Computer Science, or a closely related field, or a defense expected soon.
- An independent, self-starting mindset; comfort operating in ambiguous settings; and genuine excitement for Cogent's mission.
Compensation
- The standard base salary range for this position is $100,000 - $300,000 annually.
Company info
- Top universities like Stanford, Berkeley, Penn, Duke, Carnegie Mellon, Waterloo
- Preeminent research labs like Deepmind and SAIL
- Unicorn, high-growth companies like Scale AI, Databricks, Stripe, Tesla, Coinbase
- World class cybersecurity experts from Wiz, Abnormal AI, Zscaler
This listing is sourced directly from Cogent's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.