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AI Security Researcher in USA

  • Cogent Security
  • Full time
  • Email
  • Remote

Responsibilities

  • Design and build red-team agents, agent harnesses, tools, Model Context Protocol servers, and agent-executable offensive skills.
  • Develop full-chain attack capabilities across Windows, Active Directory, on-premises, cloud, and network environments.
  • Build detection-evasion capabilities and operate detonation and detection loops against real EDR systems.
  • Design and operate realistic cyber ranges containing EDR, SIEM, logging, and other production defenses.
  • Create evaluation tasks and benchmarks, including IntrusionBench, with verifiable success criteria.
  • Verify critical and high-severity attack paths in customer environments and feed findings into agents and detections.
  • Represent Cogent in the offensive security community through research, talks, and open-source contributions.

Requirements

  • At least 6 years of experience in offensive security, red-team operations, or adversary emulation.
  • Hands-on experience running full-chain operations from initial access through post-exploitation across Windows, Active Directory, and on-premises environments.
  • Deep experience with command-and-control frameworks such as Mythic, payload development, and EDR detection evasion.
  • Ability to write code such as Python to automate manual tradecraft into repeatable capabilities.
  • Experience standing up and operating realistic test environments or cyber ranges with EDR, SIEM, and logging.
  • Cloud identity and access management, cloud misconfiguration, CI/CD, or network attack experience is preferred.
  • Experience building security evaluations or benchmarks, contributing open-source tooling, giving conference talks, publishing offensive-security research, or working with AI agents and LLM tooling is preferred.

Cogent Security

Cogent Security builds AI-native vulnerability management software for enterprise security teams, using autonomous agents to analyze large-scale environment data and prioritize and remediate risk. The privately held company, founded in 2024 and headquartered in San Francisco, partners with Fortun...

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