Forward Deployed Agent Engineer

Cogent Security • San Francisco, CA

9d • $100,000 - $300,000

About The Position

As a Forward Deployed Agent Engineer at Cogent, you will design, build, and deploy mission-critical AI agents that operate in complex customer environments and drive measurable security outcomes. 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.
You’ll own projects end-to-end: from initial implementation and data onboarding, to deploying in production, to integrating feedback into our core agent platform. 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.

Requirements

• 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.

Nice To Haves

• 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.

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.
• 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.
• Integrate the Latest Models at Scale — Experiment with, evaluate, and integrate cutting-edge text, voice, and multi-modal models into production environments.
• Adapt to Diverse Environments — Work directly with customer security teams to integrate agents with their tools, processes, and data sources.
• Drive Platform Evolution — Identify cross-customer trends and translate field insights into platform improvements and new capabilities.
• Solve Complex Technical Problems — Debug deep in the stack, investigate edge cases, and ensure our agents meet enterprise-grade reliability and performance standards.

Benefits

• The standard base salary range for this position is $100,000 - $300,000 annually.
• Compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, job level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
• Certain roles may be eligible for variable compensation, equity, and benefits.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed