What are the responsibilities and job description for the Special Projects Engineer position at Cognition?
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
Equal 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:
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
Equal 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.
- 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%.
- Strong engineering foundation (e.g., Computer Science, Mathematics, or related technical discipline).
- 2 years of experience or equivalent startup/founder exposure.
Superintendent, Special Projects
Suffolk -
San Francisco, CA
Special Projects Lead
Zania -
San Francisco, CA
Special Projects Associate
Loop -
San Francisco, CA