About the Role
Cogent is launching the world's first AI cyber taskforce, composed of AI agents capable of human-caliber reasoning for cybersecurity tasks. We are seeking talented, ambitious AI/ML Engineers to build in the Applied AI space.
Responsibilities
- Architect and launch the world’s first AI Cyber Taskforce.
- Design and launch flagship AI agents capable of automating vulnerability management tasks, working closely with design customers.
- Understand business goals, product and technology strategies, and customer requirements to implement business-critical AI systems.
- Identify appropriate datasets and data representations to support system development.
- Decompose existing enterprise security workflows into sub-tasks for autonomous systems.
- Experiment with advancements in long-term reasoning and planning to evolve AI products from supervised to autonomous.
- Build and extend Cogent’s Gen AI Platform.
- Implement reusable system components for ranking, retrieval, and search powered by LLMs for agentic automation.
- Establish frameworks to train, evaluate, and stress-test ML systems, and improve Cogent’s Gen AI platform.
- Incorporate 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.
Requirements
- Multiple years of experience developing and deploying AI-driven systems.
- Proven track record of architecting practical, production-grade solutions.
- Expertise in machine learning, deep learning, and AI models.
- Deep understanding of applying AI technologies to build scalable, performant systems in production.
- Experience designing and deploying agentic systems and autonomous agents.
- Experience integrating AI components into larger applications or products.
- Ability to address real-world scale and performance challenges.
- 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.
- Passion for staying at the forefront of AI advancements and continuous learning.
Skills
- Machine learning
- Deep learning
- AI models
- Agentic systems
- Autonomous agents
- Reinforcement learning
- Natural language processing
- Computer vision
- Large-scale generative models
- LLMs
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.
- We blend frontier research with real-world execution.
- Cogent Research serves as our applied AI lab, providing research horsepower for agentic security workflows.
- Cogent has experienced rapid growth since coming out of stealth.
- We partner with Fortune 500 companies to secure complex production environments.
- We’re backed by Greylock.
- We’ve built a team with the best minds in applied AI from top universities, high-growth companies, and world-class cybersecurity experts.
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.
