Founding IT Engineer
About the role
Cogent is an Applied AI Lab building the next generation of AI agents for cybersecurity. AI has fundamentally changed how attacks happen, allowing malicious actors to operate at unprecedented speed and scale. Cogent's "AI Taskforce" assesses petabytes of enterprise data to remediate these issues before critical breaches occur. To stay at the cutting edge, we blend frontier research with real-world execution. Alongside our core product work, Cogent Research serves as our applied AI lab, providing the research horsepower needed to make truly agentic security workflows a reality. We partner with Fortune 500 companies to secure some of the most complex production environments in the world. We're backed by Greylock & Bain Capital Ventures, and we've built a team with the best minds in applied AI. Our team is comprised of people from: Top universities like Stanford, Berkeley, Penn, Duke, Carnegie Mellon, Waterloo; Unicorn, high-growth companies like Scale AI, Databricks, Stripe, Tesla, Coinbase; World class cybersecurity experts from Wiz, Abnormal AI, Zscaler; Preeminent research labs like Deepmind and SAIL.
We're hiring a Founding IT Engineer to build and own our IT function from the ground up. You'll stand up the systems, automation, and processes that keep our teams productive and secure as we scale: endpoints, identity, access control, physical infrastructure, and vendor management across offices in San Francisco, New York, and a growing remote workforce.
Responsibilities
- Manage and secure endpoints across our environments - device provisioning, MDM configuration, patching, and