Cognition AI

Title: Data Engineer, Core Product Location: remote United States Job Description: Employment Type Full time Department General & AdministrativeOps/Bizops 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. About the Role We're hiring a technical Data Engineer to own our full data stack – from database architecture and pipelines to instrumenting telemetry and owning integrations and reporting. You'll design and maintain the systems that keep our data reliable, accessible, and actionable across the company In this role you will: - Design and manage database architecture and data models - Build and maintain ETL/ELT pipelines and orchestration workflows - Create and manage new data integrations across internal and external systems - Own business reporting: datasets, dashboards, metrics, and self-serve analytics - Ensure data quality, observability, governance, and documentation Requirements for the role: - 4+ years in a data engineering, data science, or full-stack data role - Expert on SQL and Python (required) - Experience with data modeling, warehouse architecture, and BI-oriented schema design - Hands-on experience with ETL/ELT tools (dbt, Airflow, Dagster, etc.) - Experience building or maintaining BI reporting (Metabase a plus) - Experience developing scalable backend heavy applications - Strong knowledge of statistics and experimentation - SF, NYC or Remote 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.

Engagement Manager - Federal Location Washington DC Employment Type Full time Location Type Hybrid Department Sales About the Role At Cognition, customers are our highest priority. Engagement Managers (EMs) are customer-facing strategic operators who drive adoption, expansion, and long-term success across our most important accounts. On the federal team, that means helping some of the largest and most consequential organizations in the federal ecosystem adopt and scale Devin and Windsurf. This role should still feel recognizably like an EM role, but it sits closer to the revenue line than a traditional post-sales or program-management job. It is mission success, but mission success here is inseparable from account growth, usage expansion, and successful execution on federal contracts. You will be responsible for growing strategic accounts, building trusted relationships, identifying high-value use cases, and turning early wins into durable usage expansion. In practice, this is a selling role. The difference is that the sale is often driven through technical credibility, custom demos, training, account strategy, and relentless follow-through rather than top-of-funnel prospecting. 90% of your time will be spent with a small number of very large accounts. These will often be system integrators, OEMs, and other major federal contractors, though direct federal accounts will also be in scope. You will build champions, help them succeed internally, run technical and executive demos, support pilots and enablement, drive joint go-to-market motions where relevant, and then make sure those motions succeed. Over time, you will help expand usage across more teams, more workflows, and larger contracts. We do not let important federal customers or partners fail because they could not operationalize our product well enough. You will thrive in this role if you have strong federal instincts, like working with customers, can build trust quickly, and can become technically credible fast. The ideal candidate has software-engineering experience. That said, you do not need to have been formally a software engineer if you have hands-on experience with software engineering concepts, codebases, and developer workflows, and can talk about them credibly with technical users. You also do not need to have been an account executive. You do need to be comfortable owning external relationships, driving toward revenue outcomes, and being accountable for whether an account grows. In this role, you will: - Own and grow a small number of strategic federal accounts, with a focus on account expansion, usage growth, training, and durable customer adoption - Build deep relationships with champions, executives, technical leaders, and end users across complex organizations - Run high-quality M1 and M2-style demos yourself, tailoring the story to the customer's workflows, constraints, and priorities - Identify promising use cases for Devin and Windsurf and help customers translate early interest into real deployment and sustained usage - Drive horizontal expansion across large, quasi-independent teams within companies by turning one team win into many team wins over time - Support pilots, trainings, enablement sessions, and post-sale execution to ensure customers and partners succeed with the product - Help customers and partners navigate real-world blockers including procurement, security, legal, timing, internal change management, and operational adoption - Contribute to and proactively craft joint go-to-market efforts with systems integrators, OEMs, and other federal ecosystem partners - Act with a zero-fail mentality on the most important federal accounts, deployments, and joint go-to-market motions - Create tight feedback loops between the field and the product team so that customer insights shape roadmap and go-to-market execution Requirements for the role: - Strong experience in the federal ecosystem, whether in government, military, federal contracting, systems integrators, OEMs, or closely adjacent roles - Proven success in a customer-facing role involving strategic accounts, complex stakeholders, and technical products, programs, or deployments - Strong relationship-management instincts and comfort working with senior external stakeholders - Strong technical acumen with meaningful exposure to software engineering concepts and workflows. Ideal candidate has been a software engineer or similarly hands-on technical operator. Formal software engineering experience is not required, but the candidate must be able to speak credibly about software engineering concepts, understand code-related customer conversations, and become technically credible with our products quickly - Ability to sell through ambiguity: build the case, create urgency, drive next steps, and keep complex motions moving - Ability to operate as both account growth owner and mission-success operator in the same account - Structured, high-agency operator who moves quickly and follows through - Demonstrated ability to learn exceptionally fast - Willingness to travel for conferences, customer meetings, trainings, onsite sessions, and internal coordination You might excel if you… - have worked in or sold into large federal contractors, systems integrators, OEMs, or government programs - have owned strategic customer relationships without necessarily being the formal quota-carrying AE - have worked in a solutions engineering, deployment strategist, technical account manager, technical program manager, consultant, mission-success, or other hybrid customer-facing role - are comfortable translating between executives, operators, and engineers - enjoy training users, running workshops, and building internal champions - are competitive, highly ambitious, and energized by high-intensity environments

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 role We’re hiring two Front Desk Coordinators to support our San Francisco office and help create a welcoming, well-run workplace experience. Sitting alongside our security team, this role is often the first point of contact for employees, candidates, and guests, and plays a key part in setting the tone for how it feels to walk into the office each day. This is a hands-on, people-facing role that blends logistics and operations with hospitality and judgment. You’ll help keep the office running smoothly as the company grows, and contribute to an environment where employees can do their best work. This role will be hired as one of two Front Desk Coordinators with complementary schedules. While both roles share core responsibilities and expectations, one will primarily support morning and midday operations, and the other will focus on afternoon and evening coverage. Clear communication and clean handoffs ensure a consistent experience throughout the day. What you’ll do Be the face of the office Greet employees, candidates, and guests with professionalism and warmth Coordinate with security to ensure a smooth, secure front desk experience Support recruiting by welcoming candidates and helping interviews run on time Keep the office moving Manage incoming and outgoing mail, packages, and deliveries throughout the day, including intake and end-of-day handling Help maintain reception organization and cleanliness Stock and coordinate Cognition swag for incoming guests Support workplace operations Partner closely with the Employee Experience team on daily needs Assist office services teams (custodial, culinary, vendors) as needed Help troubleshoot day-to-day issues and escalate when appropriate Contribute to a great employee experience Notice what’s working and what isn’t in the office environment Pitch in during busy moments, events, and high-traffic days Help create a calm, welcoming, and reliable experience for everyone in the space and eventually know all employees by first name! What we’re looking for Professional, friendly presence with strong communication skills Comfortable in a highly visible, customer-facing role Organized and detail-oriented, with strong follow-through Able to balance structure with flexibility in a fast-moving environment Comfortable lifting up to 35 lbs and being on your feet throughout the day Experience in front desk, office coordination, hospitality, or rapid-growth companies is a plus Why this role matters Our reception is more than a desk - it’s a central hub. This role helps shape how employees feel about coming into the office, how candidates experience us during interviews, and how smoothly the workplace functions day to day. You’ll have real ownership, real visibility, and the opportunity to make a meaningful impact on how the office feels and runs.