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AI has fundamentally changed how attacks happen, allowing malicious actors to operate at unprecedented speed and scale. Our AI Taskforce assesses petabytes of enterprise data to remediate these issues before critical breaches occur.\nTo stay at the cutting edge, we blend frontier research with real-world execution. Alongside our core product work, Cogent Research serves as our applied AI lab - providing the research needed to make agentic security workflows a reality.\nSince coming out of stealth, Cogent has experienced rapid growth. We partner with Fortune 500 companies to secure some of the most complex production environments in the world.\nWe're backed by Greylock and our team includes people from:\nTop universities like Stanford, Berkeley, Penn, Duke, Carnegie Mellon, and Waterloo\n\nHigh-growth companies like Scale AI, Databricks, Stripe, Tesla, and Coinbase\n\nCybersecurity leaders from Wiz, Abnormal AI, and Zscaler\n\nResearch labs like DeepMind and SAIL\n\nAbout the Role\nWe're hiring a Forward Deployed Agent Engineer, New Grad to deploy AI agents in complex customer environments and drive measurable security outcomes. This is a highly cross-functional, forward-deployed role - you'll work directly with customers to understand their needs, adapt our platform to their environment, and continuously iterate on solutions that scale to millions of real-world events.\nYou'll have real ownership from day one. You'll own projects end-to-end: from initial implementation and data onboarding, to deploying in production, to integrating feedback into our core agent platform. Your work will directly shape how our agents detect threats, triage incidents, and automate security workflows for enterprise organizations.\nThis role is built for engineers who thrive in high-impact environments, want to see the tangible results of their work in the field, and are ready to operate with autonomy from the start.\nWhat You'll Do\nDesign & Deploy AI Agents - build security-focused AI agents that reason over large datasets, interact with security systems, and handle complex real-world workflows\n\nOwn Implementations End-to-End - lead technical delivery for customers, from data ingestion and transformation pipelines to configuration, workflow design, and feature extension\n\nIntegrate the Latest Models at Scale - experiment with, evaluate, and ship text, voice, and multi-modal models into production environments\n\nAdapt to Diverse Environments - work directly with customer security teams to integrate our agents with their tools, processes, and data sources\n\nDrive Platform Evolution - identify cross-customer trends and translate field insights into platform improvements and new capabilities\n\nSolve Complex Technical Problems - debug deep in the stack, investigate edge cases, and ensure our agents meet enterprise-grade reliability and performance standards\n\nWhat We're Looking For\nGraduating December 2026 or Spring 2027 with a degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or a related field\n\nProficiency in one or more programming languages (Python, Go, TypeScript, Java, or similar)\n\nStrong software fundamentals - you've built and shipped real projects (coursework, internships, or personal) and can debug what breaks, with or without AI tooling\n\nStrong communication skills, with the ability to translate between technical and non-technical contexts\n\nThrive in ambiguity, take ownership end-to-end, and prioritize customer outcomes over output\n\nBonus Points\nInternship or project experience in customer-facing, forward-deployed, or consulting engineering roles\n\nExposure to early-stage startups where scope was ambiguous and you operated across functions\n\nFamiliarity with multi-modal AI models, enterprise SaaS, security operations, or large-scale data pipelines\n\nFor California Based Applicants\nThe standard base salary range for this position is $100,000 - $160,000 annually. 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