2d ago

Cogent AI Fellowship (Member of Technical Staff)

San Francisco, CA

$100k-$300k / year

full-timecybersecurity

๐Ÿ›  Tech Stack

๐Ÿ’ผ About This Role

You'll define and pursue a research direction at the intersection of AI and formal methods, such as autoformalizing intent into machine-checkable specifications or runtime verification of agent tool calls. You'll take ideas end-to-end: from prototype to systems running against real customer workloads in cybersecurity. This fellowship blends frontier research with production execution at a fast-growing Applied AI Lab backed by Greylock.

๐ŸŽฏ What You'll Do

  • Define and pursue a research direction at the intersection of AI and formal methods.
  • Take ideas end-to-end from prototype to production against real customer workloads.
  • Partner with applied AI, agent, and platform engineers to translate research into capabilities.
  • Build evaluation harnesses and benchmarks for verified-correct or policy-compliant security environments.

๐Ÿ“‹ Requirements

  • Research experience in formal methods, program analysis, programming languages, agentic AI for code reasoning, or runtime verification.
  • A strong publication record in top conferences or comparable open-source contributions.
  • A recently completed PhD in Computer Science or closely related field.
  • Strong engineering ability including fluency in a major programming language and production-readiness judgment.

โœจ Nice to Have

  • Experience with vulnerability detection/remediation or secure-by-construction systems.
  • Independent, self-starting mindset and comfort in ambiguous settings.

๐ŸŽ Benefits & Perks

  • ๐Ÿ’ฐ Variable compensation and equity eligible.
  • ๐Ÿฅ Inclusive benefits package.

๐Ÿ“จ Hiring Process

Estimated timeline: 2-4 weeks ยท AI estimate

  1. 1Recruiter Screenยท 30 min
  2. 2Technical Interviewยท 60 min
  3. 3Research Presentationยท 60 min
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