Technical Recruiter

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.

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 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

Cogent is scaling fast and we're looking for a Technical Recruiter who can own the full recruiting lifecycle. You'll work directly with our founders to bring on exceptional engineering, security, and AI talent as we build out a world-class team.

This role is ideal for recruiters who thrive in high-ownership environments, love finding and closing exceptional talent, and want to see the tangible impact of the teams they build.

• Partner directly with founders and team leads to define hiring needs and close roles fast

• Think creatively about how to source, engage, and convert top talent

• Create steady, high-quality pipelines through outbound sourcing, referrals, and proactive talent mapping

• Develop, track, and improve metrics (e.g., time‐to‐hire, source effectiveness, candidate quality, funnel conversion)

• Build scalable recruiting systems and processes

• 4+ years of recruiting experience, with deep technical recruiting exposure.

• You’ve recruited in fast-paced, competitive environments (later-stage startups or high-bar tech companies).

• You’re comfortable navigating ambiguity and a fast paced environment

• You’re a strong communicator who is good at understanding what candidates are looking for and adjusting your strategy on the go

Bonus Points:

• You bring deep knowledge of the AI talent landscape and a network of top-tier candidates

• You’re excited about AI and cybersecurity, and want to help build a category-defining team

• You're not only interested in hiring for an AI-native team, you are interested in leaning into creating an AI-native hiring process

• You have experience with Ashby ATS