Machine Learning Researcher

San Francisco Bay Area March 7, 2026 Full Time Ashby

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.

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How to Get Hired at Cognition

Cognition built Devin, the first autonomous AI software engineer, and is one of the most ambitious AI companies at the frontier of code generation and AI agents
With only ~50 employees and many open positions, Cognition is roughly doubling in size — every hire has enormous impact on the company

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