Security Engineer
Cognition · San Francisco
CHECKED 17H AGO
Applied AIonsite$260k–$300k
At a glance
Highlights
- Secure Devin's sandbox to safely run untrusted code across millions of sessions.
- Define security for AI-native developer tools like Devin and Windsurf.
- Build detection pipelines and lead incident response end to end.
What they offer
- Significant early-stage equity
- Fully paid medical, dental and vision for you and dependents
- 401(k) with company match
- Perks including private chef, endless snacks and more
Ideal candidate
Hands-on security engineer who thinks like an attacker and thrives in novel, high-stakes problem spaces. Excited to build pragmatic controls for autonomous agents and ship fast without compromising safety.
Requirements
- Hands-on experience across product security, infrastructure security, and detection and response
- Strong software engineering fundamentals with proficiency in Python, Rust, Go and owning complex systems codebases
- Practical experience securing Kubernetes, cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and multi-tenant compute environments
- Hands-on experience hardening complex, modern web applications
- Threat modeling and adversarial thinking
- Experience leading incident response end to end
- Comfort with novel security challenges for autonomous agents and AI-native developer tools
- Prior experience at a frontier AI lab, applied AI company, or developer tools company
- BS, MS or equivalent in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering or related field from highly selective program
Lab profile
About Cognition
Applied AI lab building end-to-end software agents, makers of Devin.
What they build
- Devin
Known for
- End-to-end software agents
- Talent-dense team