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Security Engineer

Cognition · San Francisco

CHECKED 17H AGO

Applied AIonsite$260k–$300k
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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
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