Software Engineer, Infrastructure

San Francisco Bay Area April 16, 2026 Full Time Ashby

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

We’re 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 Cursor, Scale AI, Lunchclub, Modal, Google DeepMind, Waymo, 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, 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.

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How to Get Hired at Cognition AI

Study Devin extensively before applying — use it if possible, read every blog post and demo, and be prepared to discuss its capabilities, limitations, and architecture intelligently during interviews
Tailor your resume to emphasize competitive programming achievements, AI/ML project depth, and autonomous systems experience — these are Cognition's core technical values

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