About the Role

Special Projects Engineer

We are an applied AI lab building end-to-end software agents.We’re the makers of Devin, the first AI software engineer. Cognition is building collaborative AI teammates that enable engineers to focus on more interesting problems and empower engineering teams to strive for more ambitious goals.

Our team is small and talent-dense. Among our founding team, we have world-class competitive programmers, former founders, and leaders from companies at the cutting edge of AI including Scale AI, Cursor, Waymo, Tesla, Lunchclub, Modal, Google DeepMind, and Nuro.

Building Devin is just the first step—our hardest challenges still lie ahead. If you’re excited to solve some of the world’s biggest problems and build AI that can reason on real-world tasks, apply to join us.

About the RoleEqual parts Engineering, Product, and GTM – perfect for a former founder or aspiring one. You’ll translate real-world pain into product improvements, hands-on implementations, and measurable impact, by whatever means necessary.

Core Responsibilities:

• Owning end-to-end implementations with our most strategic customers.

• Understanding customer pain points deeply and translating them into solutions and product improvements.

• Being a force multiplier by building internal tools and processes that improve the operational efficiency of GTM and EPD.

What We Value:

• Founder mindset. Thrives in ambiguity, takes ownership end-to-end, and focuses on solving real problems—not just shipping code.

• High agency and initiative. Comfortable making decisions independently and moving projects forward with minimal oversight.

• Willingness and interest to travel as needed to client sites. Ability to travel up to 25%.

What We Require:

• Strong engineering foundation (e.g., Computer Science, Mathematics, or related technical discipline).

• 2+ years of experience or equivalent startup/founder exposure.

About the Company

Cognition AI is an applied artificial intelligence lab best known for creating Devin, the AI software engineer. Devin is designed to automate and enhance software development tasks, leveraging advanced AI models to assist with coding, code migration, data analysis, and more. The company is at the forefront of building intelligent agents that can reason and learn, with recent innovations including fast agent models and tools for multi-turn, context-rich code retrieval. Cognition AI’s work is used by enterprises to streamline complex engineering workflows and accelerate digital transformation.

The team at Cognition AI is small, highly talented, and includes leaders with experience from top AI and technology companies such as Google DeepMind, Waymo, and Nuro. Many team members are decorated with international accolades in informatics and programming. Employees at Cognition AI have the opportunity to tackle some of the world’s most challenging problems in AI, contribute to groundbreaking products, and work alongside experts passionate about pushing the boundaries of what AI can achieve in real-world applications.
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