Forward-Deployed AI Security Engineer

Cogent; Northern, New York (KY, NY); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Cogent is hiring a Forward Deployed Agent Engineer to design, build, and deploy AI agents for cybersecurity. You’ll work directly with customers to tailor our platform to their environment, then iterate on solutions that scale to millions of events.

The role demands hands-on engineering, data onboarding, and production deployment, with a focus on threat detection and automated security workflows for Fortune 500 clients.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of professional software engineering experience 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; able to trace issues across multiple stack layers.
• Clear 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.

Responsibilities

• Design & Deploy AI Agents to reason over large datasets and interact with security systems.
• Own Implementations End-to-End from data ingestion to pipeline configuration and feature extension.
• Integrate the Latest Models at Scale with text, voice, and multimodal models.
• Adapt to Diverse Environments by integrating agents with customer tools and data sources.
• Drive Platform Evolution by translating field insights into platform improvements.
• Solve Complex Technical Problems by debugging at depth and ensuring enterprise-grade reliability.

Skills

Python

TypeScript

Asynchronous programming

Data integration

Debugging

Communication

Ownership

Customer-facing

Tools

Data ingestion pipelines

Real-time processing

Security systems integration

Job description

Cogent is hiring a Forward Deployed Agent Engineer to design, build, and deploy AI agents for cybersecurity. You’ll work directly with customers to tailor our platform to their environment, then iterate on solutions that scale to millions of events.

The role demands hands-on engineering, data onboarding, and production deployment, with a focus on threat detection and automated security workflows for Fortune 500 clients.