# Founding IT 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. Cogent's "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 horsepower needed to make truly agentic security workflows a reality. We partner with Fortune 500 companies to secure some of the most complex production environments in the world. We're backed by Greylock & Bain Capital Ventures, and we've built a team with the best minds in applied AI. Our team is comprised of people from: Top universities like Stanford, Berkeley, Penn, Duke, Carnegie Mellon, Waterloo Unicorn, high-growth companies like Scale AI, Databricks, Stripe, Tesla, Coinbase World class cybersecurity experts from Wiz, Abnormal AI, Zscaler Preeminent research labs like Deepmind and SAIL About the Role We're hiring a Founding IT Engineer to buil

- **Id**: 1289951
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/cogent-security-founding-it-engineer>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-15T23:54:45Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-15
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T09:03:10Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 56
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3971
- **Description truncated**: no
- **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 estimate

- **Min usd**: 154000
- **Max usd**: 332000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_country_seniority_unknown
- **Sample n**: 9411

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Claude Code** — Optional: no
- **Cursor** — Optional: no
- **Databricks** — Optional: no
- **Google Workspace** — Optional: no
- **LLM Guardrails** — Optional: no
- **n8n** — Optional: no
- **OpenAI Codex** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Scale AI** — Optional: no
- **Slack** — Optional: no
- **Wiz** — Optional: no
- **Zapier** — Optional: no
- **Zscaler** — Optional: no
- **ISO 27001** — Optional: yes
- **SOC 2** — Optional: yes
- **Windows** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 56

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## 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**: 41
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.737
- **P room**: 0.55
- **Age days**: 56
- **Expected fill days**: 50
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:tail
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

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