Head of Safety
Cognition · San Francisco
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At a glance
Highlights
- Own end-to-end safety strategy for Devin, a capable autonomous coding agent.
- Design evals and red-teaming for prompt injection, exfiltration, and escape.
- Set deployment policy and oversight for agent actions with enterprise customers.
Ideal candidate
Hands-on safety leader from a frontier lab who has shipped real mitigations and wants to secure autonomous agents in production. Builder mindset with strong judgment and drive to own outcomes end to end.
Requirements
- Hands-on safety, alignment, evaluations, or red-teaming work at a frontier AI lab
- Shipped safety work that affected real models or products
- Deep understanding of agentic failure modes and mitigation approaches
- Track record of published or widely used safety research, evals, or methods
- Technical fluency in Python and training and inference stacks
- Experience starting or scaling a safety function focused on shipping mitigations
- Strong judgment on deployment risk under uncertainty
Lab profile
About Cognition
Applied AI lab building end-to-end software agents, makers of Devin.
What they build
- Devin
Known for
- End-to-end software agents
- Talent-dense team