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Research Engineer, Safety & Alignment

Cognition · San Francisco

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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
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