Software Engineer - Applied AI

Cogent Security•San Francisco, CA

4d•$100,000 - $300,000

About The Position

Cogent is launching the world's first AI cyber taskforce, composed of AI agents capable of human-caliber reasoning for cybersecurity tasks. We are looking for talented, ambitious AI/ML Engineers who are excited to build in the Applied AI space. This role involves architecting and launching the AI Cyber Taskforce, working closely with design customers to develop flagship AI agents for automating vulnerability management. You will understand business goals, product and technology strategies, and customer requirements to implement business-critical AI systems. This includes identifying appropriate datasets and data representations, decomposing enterprise security workflows into modelable sub-tasks, and experimenting with advancements in long-term reasoning and planning to create autonomous systems. You will also build and extend Cogent’s Gen AI Platform, implementing reusable system components for LLM-powered automation, and establishing frameworks for training, evaluating, and stress-testing ML systems. Staying current with ML and Gen AI developments and proposing their incorporation into Cogent’s AI systems is also key. Furthermore, you will help create a robust engineering culture by onboarding, supporting, and upleveling future team members, mentoring junior engineers, and contributing to Engineering Excellence, Operational Excellence, and Recruiting initiatives.

Requirements

Multiple years of relevant experience in developing and deploying AI-driven systems, with a proven track record of architecting practical, production-grade solutions that solve real-world problems
Expertise in machine learning, deep learning, and AI models, with a deep understanding of how to apply these technologies to build scalable, performant systems in production environments
Experience with designing and deploying agentic systems and autonomous agents, as well as integrating these AI components into larger applications or products
Ability to address and navigate real-world scale and performance challenges, ensuring that AI models and systems are efficient, robust, and performant under production constraints
Familiarity with cutting-edge AI technologies, including reinforcement learning, natural language processing, computer vision, and large-scale generative models
Proven ability to work iteratively and collaborate with cross-functional teams to evolve AI models and systems that meet evolving product needs and user expectations
Passion for staying at the forefront of AI advancements, continuously learning and applying emerging techniques to improve product performance and drive innovation

Responsibilities

Architect and launch the world’s first AI Cyber Taskforce
Work closely with our design customers to design and launch our flagship AI agents that are capable of automating tasks in vulnerability management
Understand business goals, product and technology strategies, and customer requirements and implement business-critical AI systems to achieve them
Identify appropriate datasets and data representations to support system development
Decompose existing enterprise security workflows into sub-tasks that can be modeled as an autonomous system
Experiment with the latest advancements in long-term reasoning and planning to design systems that allows Cogent to evolve the data flywheel of our AI products from initially highly supervised to eventually autonomous and managed by exception
Build and extend Cogent’s Gen AI Platform
Implement reusable system components for ranking, retrieval and search systems powered by LLMs for agentic automation
Put in place frameworks to train, evaluate, and stress-test ML systems, and extend improvements on Cogent’s AI platform
Stay on top of and when appropriate, propose incorporating cutting edge developments in ML and Gen AI into Cogent’s AI systems
Help create a robust engineering culture at Cogent
Onboard, support and uplevel future team members
Mentor and grow future junior team members
Actively contribute to Engineering Excellence, Operational Excellence and Recruiting initiatives