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[Remote] Senior Software Engineer, Security Agents

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Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Cohere is on a mission to scale intelligence to serve humanity by training and deploying frontier models for AI systems. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build intelligent systems that empower security teams by developing autonomous security agents and infrastructure to handle complex security tasks.

Responsibilities

  • Build autonomous security agents that perform alert triage, secure code reviews, threat modeling, and vulnerability assessment
  • Develop agent orchestration systems that help security practitioners automate repetitive security tasks
  • Design and implement agent security controls to ensure our AI agents can safely interact with sensitive enterprise data
  • Create the security infrastructure that allows agents to operate in high-trust environments with stringent deployment requirements
  • Ship production-ready agent capabilities that run efficiently in resource-constrained environments
  • Research and implement novel security patterns for AI agent systems, sometimes requiring custom solutions where standard libraries fall short
  • Conduct security testing of both the agents you build and the platform that runs them

Skills

  • 5+ years of software engineering experience with a track record of shipping user-facing security features
  • Strong Python development skills with significant production experience
  • Experience building or working with autonomous systems, AI agents, or intelligent automation
  • Solid understanding of security principles including session management, authentication, authorization, and secure coding practices
  • Ability to think about security at multiple layers: application security, agent behavior security, and infrastructure security
  • Comfortable working across the full stack and diving into unfamiliar codebases to understand and fix issues
  • Thrive in fast-paced environments where you can adapt to evolving priorities
  • Excited about the intersection of AI/ML and security engineering

Benefits

  • An open and inclusive culture and work environment
  • Work closely with a team on the cutting edge of AI research
  • Weekly lunch stipend, in-office lunches & snacks
  • Full health and dental benefits, including a separate budget to take care of your mental health
  • 100% Parental Leave top-up for up to 6 months
  • Personal enrichment benefits towards arts and culture, fitness and well-being, quality time, and workspace improvement
  • Remote-flexible, offices in Toronto, New York, San Francisco, London and Paris, as well as a co-working stipend
  • 6 weeks of vacation (30 working days!)

Company Overview

  • Cohere develops enterprise artificial intelligence software and provides language models, retrieval tools, and workplace platforms. It was founded in 2019, and is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, CAN, with a workforce of 201-500 employees. Its website is https://cohere.com.
  • Company H1B Sponsorship

  • Cohere has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 11 in 2025, 14 in 2024, 13 in 2023, 5 in 2022, 2 in 2021. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.
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