General Application

at Cognition · Coding AI · San Francisco, CA · General & Administrative

Applied AI lab building end-to-end software agents, starting with Devin (AI software engineer) and Windsurf (AI-native IDE), aiming to create collaborative AI teammates for complex real-world tasks.

What you'd actually do

  1. Build end-to-end software agents.
  2. Develop AI teammates that can reason on real-world tasks.
  3. Contribute to the development of Devin, the first AI software engineer.
  4. Contribute to the development of Windsurf, the AI-native IDE.

Skills

Required

  • building end-to-end software agents
  • developing AI teammates
  • reasoning on real-world tasks

Nice to have

  • competitive programming
  • software engineering
  • AI research

What the JD emphasized

  • applied AI lab
  • end-to-end software agents
  • AI teammates
  • reason on real-world tasks

Other signals

  • building end-to-end software agents
  • AI teammates that can reason on real-world tasks
  • makers of Devin, the first AI software engineer
Read full job description

We are an applied AI lab building end-to-end software agents.

We're the makers of Devin, the first AI software engineer, and Windsurf, the AI-native IDE. Together, they represent our vision for collaborative AI teammates that enable engineers to focus on more interesting problems and empower 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, Palantir, Cursor, Waymo, Tesla, Lunchclub, Modal, Google DeepMind, and Nuro.

Building Devin and Windsurf 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..

Equal Opportunity

Cognition is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities throughout the hiring process - please let us know if you need any.