Cohere

Cohere

Product Security Engineer, North Security

Toronto · Full-time

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 35 days ago
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About the role

  • Cohere is the leading security-first enterprise AI company.
  • Cohere is a team of researchers, engineers, designers, and more, who are all passionate about their craft.
  • WHY THIS ROLE Enterprises hand Cohere their most sensitive data and put our models inside workflows they can't afford to get wrong.

Responsibilities

  • Lead security reviews. Review architecture, code, and security-sensitive changes. Identify both individual vulnerabilities and the recurring design patterns behind them.
  • Perform hands-on testing. Investigate suspected vulnerabilities, develop proofs of concept, assess exploitability and impact, and partner with engineers through remediation.
  • Build scalable guardrails. Develop secure defaults, approved patterns, reusable controls, review requirements, and automated checks that reduce recurring risks.
  • Strengthen engineering capability. Pair with engineers, document practical guidance, and help product teams develop durable security expertise.
  • You understand common vulnerability classes and their underlying design failures, including injection, authorization flaws, IDOR, SSRF, unsafe deserialization, race conditions, cryptographic misuse, and software supply-chain risks.
  • Lead security reviews.
  • Identify both individual vulnerabilities and the recurring design patterns behind them.
  • We build cutting-edge foundation AI models and end-to-end products that are designed to solve real-world business problems.
  • We're training and deploying frontier models for enterprises who are building AI systems.
  • We obsess over what we build.

Requirements

  • You can reason rigorously about untrusted input, authorization, isolation, identity, delegation, and data boundaries.
  • Direct experience with agentic AI systems is valuable but not required.
  • You have strong software engineering fundamentals and can independently understand, test, and contribute fixes to production codebases.
  • You are proficient in at least one of Python, Go, or TypeScript.
  • You have driven security improvements involving multiple engineering teams, including situations where influence mattered more than authority.

Nice to have

  • Experience securing multi-tenant SaaS, enterprise software, or systems that process sensitive customer data.
  • Offensive security experience through penetration testing, red teaming or security research.
  • Experience operating or participating in a vulnerability disclosure or bug bounty program.
  • Contributions to open-source security projects, published research, conference talks, or credited vulnerability discoveries.
  • For those in the office: a daily lunch program, plenty of snacks, and regular community and social events.
  • If any of the above doesn't line up exactly with your experience, we still encourage you to apply.
  • we welcome applicants from all backgrounds and are committed to providing equal opportunities.
  • We may use AI-enabled tools to screen and assess applicants against the criteria for this position.

Skills

  • Enterprises hand Cohere their most sensitive data and put our models inside workflows they can't afford to get wrong.

Compensation

  • Annual enrichment

Benefits

  • 6 weeks of paid vacation (30 working days!)
  • Everyone receives a $500 home office stipend to set up your workspace properly.
  • A weekly lunch stipend of $75/£75 or equivalent in your local currency for lunch.
  • Full health and dental benefits, including a separate budget for mental health.
  • RRSP matching, 401K, Pension Scheme.
  • 100% Parental Leave top-up for up to 6 months, for either parent.
  • Arts & culture, fitness/wellness, quality time, and a workspace improvement credit.
  • Education & learning stipend for conferences, courses, and coaching.
  • For those not near an office: a co-working benefit so you can work alongside others in your city.

Company info

  • We believe that our work is instrumental to the widespread adoption of AI and we are looking for folks that want to be part of that.
  • We are a global technology company headquartered in Toronto with key offices in London, New York City, San Francisco, Montreal, Paris, Berlin and Seoul.
  • Beware of Scams: Cohere will never ask for payment or third-party services (e.g., CV writing) as part of our hiring process.
  • Each one of us is responsible for contributing to increasing the capabilities of our models and the value they drive for our customers.
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