About the Role
As a Staff Frontend Engineer, you will own the frontend platform and experience that enables customers to visualize, understand, and act on complex security data with confidence. This is a Staff+ caliber role where you will set the technical direction for a brand-new platform, design the frontend infrastructure, build "golden" component libraries, and make the platform AI-friendly, all while continuing to ship customer-facing features. You’ll combine deep architectural thinking with hands-on development, ensuring that our frontend stack is both elegant and resilient as we scale. Over time, you’ll help mentor other frontend engineers and we will build a team around the foundations you create.
Responsibilities
- Define Frontend Architecture – Establish the core architecture and patterns for our web applications, laying the foundation for long-term scalability and performance.
- Build Golden Libraries & Platform – Create reusable component libraries and tooling that set the standard for quality and enable rapid, consistent development across the team.
- Build AI-Driven, User-Focused Features – While setting up core frontend infrastructure, design and deliver high-impact features that seamlessly integrate AI-powered capabilities, ensuring clarity, usability, and reliability for complex security workflows.
- Mentor and Influence – Serve as a mentor and technical leader for future frontend engineers; help us grow a team that values craftsmanship and excellence.
- Drive Engineering Craftsmanship – Uphold high standards of code quality, attention to detail, and thoughtful design. Balance speed with sustainable engineering practices.
Requirements
- Have operated at Staff+ level (Staff, Senior Staff, or Principal Frontend Engineer) at some point in your career.
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Deep expertise in React, TypeScript, and modern web application architecture.
- Strong background in frontend infrastructure—component libraries, build systems, state management, and performance optimization.
- Demonstrated ability to work autonomously, owning projects end-to-end with minimal oversight
- Exceptional attention to detail and a passion for engineering craftsmanship.
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills; thrive in fast-paced, high-impact environments.
Skills
- React
- TypeScript
- Modern web application architecture
- Frontend infrastructure
- Component libraries
- Build systems
- State management
- Performance optimization
Experience Level
- Staff+
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
Salary/Compensations
- $100,000 - $300,000 annually
About the Company
- Cogent is an Applied AI Lab building the next generation of AI agents for cybersecurity.
- AI has fundamentally changed how attacks happen, allowing malicious actors to operate at unprecedented speed and scale.
- Cogent’s "AI Taskforce" assesses petabytes of enterprise data to remediate these issues before critical breaches occur.
- To stay at the cutting edge, we blend frontier research with real-world execution.
- Cogent Research serves as our applied AI lab, providing the research horsepower needed to make truly agentic security workflows a reality.
- Since coming out of stealth, Cogent has experienced rapid growth.
- We partner with Fortune 500 companies to secure some of the most complex production environments in the world.
- We’re backed by Greylock and we’ve built a team with the best minds in applied AI.
- Our team is comprised of people from 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
Equal Opportunity
- We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse company.
- We do not discriminate based on gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, civil or family status, age, disability, or race.
