Senior Software Engineer - AI Security & Autonomy (Remote)

cohere; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Lunch stipend

Health and dental benefits

RRSP matching / 401K

Parental leave

Enrichment benefits

Vacation 6 weeks

Travel to other offices

Home office stipend

Job summary

Cohere is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build autonomous AI agents for enterprise security. The role focuses on creating secure, scalable agent systems and orchestration that streamline security workflows.

You will work across the stack, partner with security practitioners, and ship production-ready capabilities while advancing AI/ML security practices. Remote-friendly with multiple offices and generous benefits.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with a track record of shipping user-facing security features.
• Strong Python development skills with significant production experience.
• 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 where you can adapt to 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 development

Autonomous systems

Security engineering

Full stack development

AI/ML security

Adaptability

Job description

Cohere is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build autonomous AI agents for enterprise security. The role focuses on creating secure, scalable agent systems and orchestration that streamline security workflows.

You will work across the stack, partner with security practitioners, and ship production-ready capabilities while advancing AI/ML security practices. Remote-friendly with multiple offices and generous benefits.