Senior AI Security Engineer — Autonomous Agents

Cohere; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Lunch stipend

Health and dental benefits

RRSP matching

401K

Parental leave top-up

Education stipend for conferences

6 weeks vacation

Travel budget for other offices

Home office stipend

Job summary

Cohere is seeking a Senior Software Engineer focused on agentic security to build autonomous AI-driven security systems for enterprise use. You will own end-to-end development, from design to deployment, and collaborate with security, platform, and engineering teams.

You will ship secure, production-grade agent capabilities, address risk across data and systems, and drive innovation at the intersection of AI/ML and security engineering. This role is remote-friendly and globally impactful.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering with a track record of shipping user-facing security features.
• Strong Python development experience in production.
• Experience building or working with autonomous systems, AI agents, or intelligent automation.
• Solid understanding of security principles including session management, authentication, authorization, and secure coding practices.
• Ability to think about security at multiple layers: application security, agent behavior security, and infrastructure security.
• Comfortable working across the full stack and diving into unfamiliar codebases to understand and fix issues.
• Thrive in fast-paced environments with evolving priorities.
• Excited about the intersection of AI/ML and security engineering.

Responsibilities

• Build autonomous security agents that perform alert triage, secure code reviews, threat modeling, and vulnerability assessment.
• Develop agent orchestration systems that help security practitioners automate repetitive security tasks.
• Design and implement agent security controls to ensure our AI agents can safely interact with sensitive enterprise data.
• Create the security infrastructure that allows agents to operate in high-trust environments with stringent deployment requirements.
• Ship production-ready agent capabilities that run efficiently in resource-constrained environments.
• Research and implement novel security patterns for AI agent systems, sometimes requiring custom solutions where standard libraries fall short.
• Conduct security testing of both the agents you build and the platform that runs them.

Skills

Python

Autonomous systems

Security principles

Full stack

AI/ML

Job description

Cohere is seeking a Senior Software Engineer focused on agentic security to build autonomous AI-driven security systems for enterprise use. You will own end-to-end development, from design to deployment, and collaborate with security, platform, and engineering teams.

You will ship secure, production-grade agent capabilities, address risk across data and systems, and drive innovation at the intersection of AI/ML and security engineering. This role is remote-friendly and globally impactful.