Solutions Architect (US West)

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

- 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

As a Solutions Engineer at Cogent Security, you'll be the technical backbone of our post-sales motion - designing and scoping the vulnerability management solutions that get our most complex customers live on Cogent. You're not writing production code, but you're technical enough to speak the same language as a customer's security engineers, translate their environment into a concrete implementation plan, and write the tickets that turn that plan into reality.

This role sits within Customer Success, working alongside TAMs who own the relationship and success metrics, while you own the technical design. Over time, we want to reduce how much of this work requires a dedicated Forward Deployed Engineer for every implementation - which means the person in this seat need...