engineering
Posted Sep 23, 2025Special Projects Engineer - Europe
at Cognition
London, United KingdomRemote
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Requirements
- WE ARE AN APPLIED AI LAB BUILDING END-TO-END SOFTWARE AGENTS.
- We're the makers of Devin, the first AI software engineer, and Windsurf, the AI-native IDE.
- Together, they represent our vision for collaborative AI teammates that enable engineers to focus on more interesting problems and empower teams to strive for more ambitious goals.
- 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.
- 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.
- ABOUT THE ROLE Equal parts Engineering, Product, and GTM – perfect for a former founder or aspiring one.
- Responsibilities: - Owning end-to-end implementations with our most strategic customers. - Understanding customer pain points deeply and translating them into solutions and product improvements. - Being a force multiplier by building internal tools and processes that improve the operational efficiency of GTM and EPD.
Experience
- What We Require: - Strong engineering foundation (e.g., Computer Science, Mathematics, or related technical discipline). - 2+ years of
Additional details
- Building Devin and Windsurf is just the first step—our hardest challenges still lie ahead.
- You’ll translate real-world pain into product improvements, hands-on implementations, and measurable impact, by whatever means necessary. Core
- Thrives in ambiguity, takes ownership end-to-end, and focuses on solving real problems—not just shipping code. - High agency and initiative.
- Comfortable making decisions independently and moving projects forward with minimal oversight. - Willingness and interest to travel as needed to client sites.
- experience or equivalent startup/founder exposure.
- EQUAL OPPORTUNITY Cognition is an equal opportunity employer.
- We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.
- We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities throughout the hiring process - please let us know if you need any.