Senior Software Engineer — Autonomous AI Security

Cohere; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Lunch stipend $75 per week

Job summary

Cohere is hiring a Senior Software Engineer focused on agentic security. You will build intelligent systems that empower security teams and automate critical tasks, including alert triage, threat modeling, and secure code reviews.

The role emphasizes strong Python development, experience with autonomous AI agents, and applying security best practices across the stack. You will contribute to secure, scalable infrastructure and partner with cross-functional teams to deploy in high-trust

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering with a track record shipping user-facing security features.
• Proficient in Python with production experience.
• Experience with autonomous systems, AI agents, or intelligent automation.
• Strong understanding of security principles: session management, auth, authorization, secure coding.

Responsibilities

• Build autonomous security agents that perform alert triage, secure code reviews, threat modeling, and vulnerability assessment.
• Develop agent orchestration systems to automate repetitive security tasks.
• Design and implement agent security controls for safe interaction with enterprise data.
• Create security infrastructure for operating in high-trust deployment environments.
• Ship production-ready agent capabilities that run efficiently in constrained environments.
• Research and implement novel security patterns for AI agent systems.

Skills

5+ years experience

Python

Autonomous systems

Security principles

Full-stack

Security testing

Job description

Cohere is hiring a Senior Software Engineer focused on agentic security. You will build intelligent systems that empower security teams and automate critical tasks, including alert triage, threat modeling, and secure code reviews.

The role emphasizes strong Python development, experience with autonomous AI agents, and applying security best practices across the stack. You will contribute to secure, scalable infrastructure and partner with cross-functional teams to deploy in high-trust