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.