Software Engineer, Security Agents

Cohere is a security-first enterprise AI company that builds foundation AI models and end-to-end products for real-world business problems. The Senior Software Engineer will create autonomous security agents and orchestration systems that automate security tasks, implement controls for safe enterprise data interaction, build secure infrastructure, and conduct agent and platform security testing.

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

Requirements:

• 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
• This role can be based remotely or from one of our office locations listed on the job description - there is no minimum in-office qualification requirement
• We care most about hiring exceptional people regardless of locations, though please check the location listed on the posting for guidance around the core time zone or working hours alignment expected for the role