Research Engineer, Safety & Alignment

Cognition·San Francisco·Posted 9 October 2026

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WE ARE AN APPLIED AI LAB BUILDING END-TO-END SOFTWARE AGENTS. We're the makers of Devin, the first AI software engineer. Our team is extremely 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 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. ROLE MISSION Devin writes and runs code, uses tools, takes actions in real customer systems, and operates for hours without a human in the loop. Safety here is not a research paper; it is whether an agent behaves correctly in production, millions of times a day. You will be a founding member of Cognition's safety team, reporting to the Head of Safety. You will build the evaluations and red-teaming that gate every release, develop alignment methods that shape how our models are trained, and work directly with the agent team on how Devin plans, acts, and asks for help. This is a…

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