CA
$260,000 – $300,000
Listed on Cognition AI’s own careers site. You apply with them directly — we never stand between you and the employer.
What this role is
This role secures AI-powered developer tools that execute untrusted code and handle sensitive credentials at scale. It suits security engineers who want hands-on work across product, infrastructure, and detection systems while helping define security practices for a new category of AI-native applications.
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Skills this role names
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What they ask for
Required
- Product security, infrastructure security, and detection/response experience
- Python, Rust, or Go proficiency and comfort with complex systems codebases
- Kubernetes and cloud platform security experience (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
- Web application security hardening experience
- Threat modeling and adversarial thinking skills
- Incident response leadership experience
- BS, MS, or equivalent in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or related field from a selective program
Nice to have
- Experience at a frontier AI lab, applied AI company, or developer tools company
- Comfort with novel security challenges unique to autonomous agents and AI-native developer tools