Cogent AI Fellowship (Member of Technical Staff)
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.
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 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
- Preeminent research labs like Deepmind and SAIL
- Unicorn, high-growth companies like Scale AI, Databricks, Stripe, Tesla, Coinbase
- World class cybersecurity experts from Wiz, Abnormal AI, Zscaler
ABOUT THE ROLE
Cogent Research is investing equally in two core research areas. The first is agentic security: as AI agents are deployed in production, real-world incidents have shown that prompt-level guardrails are insufficient. Agent behavior requires guarantees that are non-bypassable, AI-synthesized, and human-auditable. The second is auto-remediation: resolving security findings at machine speed in real customer environments.
Each area is a first-class research objective, and the two are deeply connected. Auto-remediation can only operate safely at the required level of autonomy when agentic security guarantees are in place. Across both areas, we combine AI with formal methods: tool calls governed by runtime-enforced policies, and code fixes that ship with machine-c...