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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
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