# Forward Deployed Agent Engineer

About Cogent Security Cogent is an Applied AI Lab building the next generation of AI agents for cybersecurity. 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. To 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. Since 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. We're backed by Greylock and our team includes people from: Top universities like Stanford, Berkeley, Penn, Duke, Carnegie Mellon, and Waterloo High-growth companies like Scale AI, Databricks, Stripe, Tesla, and Coinbase Cybersecurity leaders from Wiz, Abnormal AI, and Zscaler Research labs like DeepMind and SAIL About the Role We're hiring a Forward Deployed Agent Engineer to design, build, and deploy mission-critical AI agents tha

- **Id**: 1289980
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/cogent-security-forward-deployed-agent-engineer>
- **Role**: Solutions
- **Role family**: Solutions
- **Seniority**: junior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States, New York, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 2
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-14T19:33:54Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-14
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T09:03:10Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 57
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4291
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: AI Agents, Cybersecurity AI

## Company

- **Id**: 1921973
- **Name**: Cogent Security
- **Domain**: cogent.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/cogent-com>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 88
- **Open postings**: 4
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.5
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 50
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 100000
- **Max**: 300000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 300000

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Databricks** — Optional: no
- **Multimodal AI** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Scale AI** — Optional: no
- **TypeScript** — Optional: no
- **Wiz** — Optional: no
- **Zscaler** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 57

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 2
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-26T07:41:39Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 5; Filings 12m: 5

## Liveness

- **Score**: 35
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.799
- **P room**: 0.44
- **Age days**: 57
- **Expected fill days**: 50
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:tail, crowd:junior
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 300000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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