> AI agents: this is one page of Nextmove’s FDE site, in Markdown. Nextmove is a job board and free career service for forward deployed engineers (FDEs). Each posting is classified from its text, not its title: the kind of work, how much of it is production code, pre-sales weight, time at customer sites, travel, remote arrangement, level and posted base pay. The site also publishes the aggregates: median pay by level, metro, company and kind of work, and which companies started hiring FDEs each week. Every page under https://nextmove.md/fde is served this way; the index of pages is https://nextmove.md/llms.txt. # Forward Deployed Agent Engineer Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/8b2ffedbcbde8090 Cogent Security, Inc. posts a FDE role to build what the customer runs in San Francisco, CA, at $100,000–$300,000 base, above the senior FDE median of $190,000 across 1,864 postings with pay. Build and deploy AI agents for cybersecurity workflows in complex enterprise customer environments, owning implementations from data onboarding through production deployment. Read from the employer’s posting on November 8, 2026. - [Cogent Security, Inc.](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/cogent-security-inc) Posted Sep 14, 2026 by Cogent Security, Inc. · open on Ashby as of Nov 8, 2026 **$100,000–$300,000** + equity San Francisco, CA Hybrid Full-time Build and deploy AI agents for cybersecurity workflows in complex enterprise customer environments, owning implementations from data onboarding through production deployment. - [See roles that fit me](https://nextmove.md/sign-up?from=%2Ffde%2Fjobs%2F8b2ffedbcbde8090&placement=top) - [View posting at Cogent Security, Inc.](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/cogent-security/e038692d-ca5c-4df4-8ea2-b472c2a6d99b/application) Free. Upload your resume once, see why each FDE role fits, and get introduced only when you say so. ## At a glance ### Posted base pay $100K–$300K Above the median Midpoint $200K · median $190K This job $100K to $300K. Senior FDE postings, 1,864 postings: the middle 50% of posted pay is $160K to $220K, median $190K. ### The work Builds what the customer runs Balance **Mostly building** Project stages 1. Pre-sales (not covered) 2. Proof of concept (not covered) 3. Implementation 4. Operations - **Coding**: Writes production code - **Builds for**: External customers - **Level**: Senior - **Role**: Individual contributor ### What they ask for Experience - **2+ years** professional software engineering experience Background - **Software engineering** ### Do you meet what the posting states? The posting asks for 2+ years. How many do you have? The posting reads as a senior role. What level are you at now? The job is in San Francisco, CA. Could you work there? Which of these have you used in production? Answer each one. Nothing is saved or sent. [What postings ask for, by background →](https://nextmove.md/fde/paths) ## Conditions - **Location**: San Francisco, CA - **Work arrangement**: Hybrid - **Employment type**: Full-time - **Pay**: ## More like this [Deepgram](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/deepgram) ### [Software Engineer - Applied AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/62ba0cdc84fdffe7) San Francisco, CA On-site New · 3d ago $173,800–$212,400 [Casca](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/casca) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/927bef3af6c8393d) San Francisco, CA On-site 4w ago $160,000–$265,000 [Zip](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/zip) ### [Software Engineer, Forward Deployed (Mid - Senior Level)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/db3d12a17ae46903) San Francisco, CA Hybrid 7w ago $150,000–$250,000 - [Other jobs at Cogent Security, Inc. (1)](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/cogent-security-inc) ## The job description from Cogent Security, Inc. Posted by Cogent Security, Inc. on Sep 14, 2026 ### About Cogent Security 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. Our 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 needed to make agentic security workflows a reality. Since coming out of stealth, Cogent has experienced rapid growth. We partner with Fortune 500 companies to secure some of the most complex production environments in the world. We're backed by Greylock and our team includes people from: - Top universities like Stanford, Berkeley, Penn, Duke, Carnegie Mellon, and Waterloo - High-growth companies like Scale AI, Databricks, Stripe, Tesla, and Coinbase - Cybersecurity leaders from Wiz, Abnormal AI, and Zscaler - Research labs like DeepMind and SAIL ### About the Role We're hiring a Forward Deployed Agent Engineer to design, build, and deploy mission-critical AI agents that operate in complex customer environments and drive measurable security outcomes. This is a highly cross-functional, forward-deployed role - you'll work directly with customers to understand their needs, adapt our platform to their environment, and continuously iterate on solutions that scale to millions of real-world events. You'll own projects end-to-end: from initial implementation and data onboarding, to deploying in production, to integrating feedback into our core agent platform. Your work will directly shape how our agents detect threats, triage incidents, and automate security workflows for Fortune 500 organizations. This role is built for engineers who thrive in high-impact environments, love solving hard technical problems, and want to see the tangible results of their work in the field. ### What You'll Do - **Design & Deploy AI Agents** - build security-focused AI agents that reason over large datasets, interact with security systems, and handle complex real-world workflows - **Own Implementations End-to-End** - lead technical delivery for new and existing customers, from data ingestion and transformation pipelines to configuration, workflow design, and feature extension - **Integrate the Latest Models at Scale** - experiment with, evaluate, and integrate the latest text, voice, and multi-modal models into production environments - **Adapt to Diverse Environments** - work directly with customer security teams to integrate our agents with their tools, processes, and data sources - **Drive Platform Evolution** - identify cross-customer trends and translate field insights into platform improvements and new capabilities - **Solve Complex Technical Problems** - debug deep in the stack, investigate edge cases, and ensure our agents meet enterprise-grade reliability and performance standards ### What We're Looking For - 2+ years of professional software engineering experience, ideally in high-velocity or customer-facing environments - Proficiency in Python and TypeScript, with strong skills in asynchronous programming and building robust data integrations - Strong debugging and systems thinking abilities; comfortable tracing issues across multiple layers of a stack - Clear communication skills, with the ability to translate between technical and non-technical contexts - Thrive in ambiguity, take ownership end-to-end, and prioritize customer outcomes over output ### Nice to Have - Experience with multi-modal AI models, enterprise SaaS, security operations, or behavioral analytics - Familiarity with large-scale data ingestion, transformation pipelines, and real-time processing ### For California Based Applicants The standard base salary range for this position is $100,000 - $300,000 annually. Compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, job level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for variable compensation, equity, and benefits. We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse company. We do not discriminate based on gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, civil or family status, age, disability, or race. [View posting at Cogent Security, Inc.](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/cogent-security/e038692d-ca5c-4df4-8ea2-b472c2a6d99b/application) ## About Cogent Security, Inc. Cogent builds AI agents that discover, assess, and remediate enterprise security vulnerabilities with configurable human approval and verification. 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