Research Engineer, Safety & Alignment
Cognition · San Francisco
CHECKED 15H AGO
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At a glance
Highlights
- Build agentic safety evals that gate every model release.
- Red-team Devin to find failures before customers do.
- Shape how Devin plans, acts, and asks for help.
Ideal candidate
Empirically rigorous researcher who loves breaking agentic systems and making production agents safer. Thrives hands-on at the intersection of alignment research and real-world deployment.
Requirements
- Hands-on safety or alignment research experience with impact on training or deployment
- Understanding of agentic failure modes like tool misuse, prompt injection and drift
- Proficiency in Python and PyTorch or JAX and eval infrastructure at scale
- Empirical rigor designing clean experiments and reporting results honestly
- Comfort with adversarial thinking and systematically breaking systems
- Prior experience at frontier AI lab or applied AI company
- PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Physics, Math or equivalent experience
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