Product Security Engineer, North Security

Cohere; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 162,000 - 232,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Lunch stipend

Health and dental benefits

RRSP matching

401K

Parental leave

Enrichment benefits

Vacation

Travel budget

Home office stipend

Job summary

Cohere seeks a Senior Security Engineer in Seattle to lead security reviews, threat modeling, and secure AI-powered products. You will work with engineers to identify vulnerabilities and design mitigations to keep enterprise-grade models safe.

You will evaluate risks such as prompt injection, data exposure, tenant isolation, and sandbox escapes, translating findings into practical controls. The role favors strong software fundamentals and proficiency in Python, Go, or TypeScript.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering fundamentals and ability to understand production codebases.
• Proficient in Python, Go, or TypeScript.
• Led security reviews or threat models for complex systems with measurable improvements.
• Understand vulnerability classes such as injection, auth flaws, IDOR, SSRF, and supply-chain risks.

Responsibilities

• Lead security reviews of architecture, code, and changes; identify vulnerabilities and patterns.
• Secure AI-powered products; assess risks like prompt injection and data exposure.
• Model threats for new capabilities; translate findings into mitigations.
• Perform hands-on testing; develop PoCs and partner with engineers for remediation.
• Build scalable guardrails; develop secure defaults and reusable controls.
• Strengthen engineering capability; document guidance for product teams.
• Influence risk decisions; clearly present findings to engineers and executives.

Skills

Python

Go

TypeScript

Tools

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Job description

Who are we?

Cohere is the leading security-first enterprise AI company. We build cutting-edge foundation AI models and end-to-end products that are designed to solve real-world business problems.

Who are we?

Cohere is the leading security-first enterprise AI company. We build cutting-edge foundation AI models and end-to-end products that are designed to solve real-world business problems. We’re training and deploying frontier models for enterprises who are building AI systems. We believe that our work is instrumental to the widespread adoption of AI and we are looking for folks that want to be part of that. We obsess over what we build. Each one of us is responsible for contributing to increasing the capabilities of our models and the value they drive for our customers. Cohere is a team of researchers, engineers, designers, and more, who are all passionate about their craft. We are a global technology company headquartered in Toronto with key offices in London, New York City, San Francisco, Montreal, Paris, Berlin and Seoul. Join us!

Why this role

Enterprises hand Cohere their most sensitive data and put our models inside workflows they can't afford to get wrong. Securing that means working on problems the industry hasn't settled yet, what authorization means when an agent acts on a user's behalf, how to contain tools that consume untrusted input, and whether tenant boundaries hold when a model can be steered by the data it reads. The established playbooks only take you so far.

What you’ll do

• Lead security reviews. Review architecture, code, and security-sensitive changes. Identify both individual vulnerabilities and the recurring design patterns behind them.
• Secure AI-powered products. Evaluate risks such as prompt injection, unsafe tool use, identity and delegation failures, excessive agency, data exposure, tenant isolation, and sandbox escapes.
• Threat model new capabilities. Identify trust boundaries, abuse cases, and high-impact failure modes before implementation. Translate findings into practical, prioritized mitigations.
• Perform hands-on testing. Investigate suspected vulnerabilities, develop proofs of concept, assess exploitability and impact, and partner with engineers through remediation.
• Build scalable guardrails. Develop secure defaults, approved patterns, reusable controls, review requirements, and automated checks that reduce recurring risks.
• Strengthen engineering capability. Pair with engineers, document practical guidance, and help product teams develop durable security expertise.
• Influence risk decisions. Explain technical findings, business impact, and remediation options clearly to engineers, product leaders, and executives.

You may be a good fit if

• You have strong software engineering fundamentals and can independently understand, test, and contribute fixes to production codebases.
• You are proficient in at least one of Python, Go, or TypeScript.
• You have led security reviews or threat models for complex production systems and can point to meaningful design or risk improvements that resulted.
• You understand common vulnerability classes and their underlying design failures, including injection, authorization flaws, IDOR, SSRF, unsafe deserialization, race conditions, cryptographic misuse, and software supply-chain risks.
• You understand modern application architecture, including web applications, APIs, OAuth/OIDC, cloud platforms, containers, Kubernetes, and CI/CD systems.
• You can reason rigorously about untrusted input, authorization, isolation, identity, delegation, and data boundaries. Direct experience with agentic AI systems is valuable but not required.
• You have driven security improvements involving multiple engineering teams, including situations where influence mattered more than authority.
• You communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical audiences.

Nice to have

• Experience building or operating security tooling such as SAST, DAST, SCA, custom linters, or policy-as-code.
• Experience securing multi-tenant SaaS, enterprise software, or systems that process sensitive customer data.
• Offensive security experience through penetration testing, red teaming or security research.
• Experience operating or participating in a vulnerability disclosure or bug bounty program.
• Contributions to open-source security projects, published research, conference talks, or credited vulnerability discoveries.

Full-Time Employees At Cohere Enjoy These Perks

• A weekly lunch stipend of $75/£75 or equivalent in your local currency for lunch.
• Full health and dental benefits, including a separate budget for mental health.
• RRSP matching, 401K, Pension Scheme.
• 100% Parental Leave top-up for up to 6 months, for either parent.

Annual enrichment benefits: Arts & culture, fitness/wellness, quality time, and a workspace improvement credit. Education & learning stipend for conferences, courses, and coaching.

• 6 weeks of paid vacation (30 working days!)
• Budget for traveling to other offices if you are remote, plus an annual company offsite.

How And Where We Work

• Cohere is remote-friendly, but we also have offices in Toronto, London, New York City, San Francisco, Montreal, Paris, Berlin and Seoul with more opening soon.
• For those in the office: a daily lunch program, plenty of snacks, and regular community and social events.
• For those not near an office: a co-working benefit so you can work alongside others in your city.
• Everyone receives a $500 home office stipend to set up your workspace properly.

We strive to create an inclusive work environment for all; we welcome applicants from all backgrounds and are committed to providing equal opportunities. Should you require any accommodations during the recruitment process, please submit an Accommodations Request Form, and we will work together to meet your needs.

We may use AI-enabled tools to screen and assess applicants against the criteria for this position. This helps our recruiters identify potentially qualified candidates, but it doesn't limit the applications our recruiters may review or consider.

Compensation Range: CA$230K - CA$330K