Role overview

Cohere is a security-first enterprise AI company that builds foundation models and end-to-end products for real-world business challenges. The North Security team is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design and develop autonomous AI agents that tackle complex security tasks faced by enterprise security practitioners every day.

Key responsibilities

Build autonomous security agents capable of performing alert triage, secure code reviews, threat modeling, and vulnerability assessment.
Develop agent orchestration systems that enable security practitioners to automate repetitive security tasks.
Design and implement security controls for AI agents to safely interact with sensitive enterprise data.
Create security infrastructure that allows agents to operate in high-trust environments with strict deployment requirements.
Ship production-ready agent capabilities optimized to run efficiently in resource-constrained settings.
Research and implement novel security patterns for AI agent systems, developing custom solutions when standard libraries are insufficient.
Conduct security testing of both the agents and the platform that runs them.

Requirements

Five or more years of software engineering experience with a proven track record of shipping user-facing security features.
Strong Python development skills with substantial 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 across multiple layers: application security, agent behavior security, and infrastructure security.
Comfortable working across the full stack and diving into unfamiliar codebases to understand and resolve issues.
Ability to thrive in fast-paced environments with evolving priorities and genuine interest in the intersection of AI/ML and security engineering.

What makes this role worth considering

Cohere is a global technology company headquartered in Toronto with offices in London, New York City, San Francisco, Montreal, Paris, Berlin, and Seoul. This position offers remote flexibility with no minimum in-office requirement, along with comprehensive benefits including six weeks of paid vacation, full health and dental coverage, parental leave top-up, education and learning stipends, and a $500 home office stipend.