Senior Software Engineer, Security Agents
Who are we? Our mission is to scale intelligence to serve humanity.
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Who are we? Our mission is to scale intelligence to serve humanity. Responsibilities: - Build and ship security features for North, our AI workspace platform - Develop autonomous agents that talk to sensitive enterprise data - Write and ship minimal code that runs in low-resource environments, and has highly stringent deployment mechanisms - Pulling in new tools to enhance North's security capabilities - As security and privacy are paramount, you will sometimes need to re-invent the wheel, and won’t be able to use the most popular libraries or tooling - Perform application security testing for your code to test its resilience against real-world threats Company context: Cohere builds enterprise AI models, tooling, and infrastructure with meaningful technical hiring across Canada and the United States.
Day-to-day expectations
Cohere lists these responsibilities for the Senior Software Engineer, Security Agents role.
- Build and ship security features for North, our AI workspace platform
- Develop autonomous agents that talk to sensitive enterprise data
- Write and ship minimal code that runs in low-resource environments, and has highly stringent deployment mechanisms
- Pulling in new tools to enhance North's security capabilities
- As security and privacy are paramount, you will sometimes need to re-invent the wheel, and won’t be able to use the most popular libraries or tooling
- Perform application security testing for your code to test its resilience against real-world threats
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