engineering
Posted Sep 23, 2025Deployed Engineer - Europe
at Cognition
London, United KingdomRemote
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.
- Requirements - Strong engineering foundation from a rigorous technical environment - Demonstrated track record of exceptional performance in whatever you've pursued, whether academic, athletic, professional, or entrepreneurial - Self-directed by default.
- You can hold your own with senior engineers and executives alike. - Have a high tolerance for ambiguity, intensity, and sustained effort when the problem demands it. - Willingness to travel 25–50% You might excel if you… - Advanced in at least one modern programming language (e.g., Python, TypeScript) -
- Experience writing and debugging real software systems - Want to work directly with real users on high-impact technical problems - Learn quickly by being embedded in challenging, real-world environments - Have worked at an early-stage startup or in a role where you operated well beyond your job description EQUAL OPPORTUNITY Cognition is an equal opportunity employer.
Additional details
- Building Devin and Windsurf is just the first step—our hardest challenges still lie ahead.
- ABOUT THE ROLE At Cognition, customers are our highest priority.
- Deployed Engineers (DEs) are customer-facing technical experts who help our customers maximize the value they get out of Devin/Windsurf.
- You’ll work directly with engineers to understand their workflows, identify high-impact use cases, and deploy Devin/Windsurf into real production environments.
- You’ll lead demos and pilots, support integrations, and drive adoption of the Cognition platform from the inside out.
- This role combines hands-on technical work, customer partnership, and rapid execution.
- You'll serve a broad range of clients, switching context frequently and staying ahead of issues before they become blockers.
- You're expected to be proactive, make judgment calls, and take ownership of outcomes. In this role,
- you will: - Own all technical aspects of the customer lifecycle—from deployment through activation, making sure our customers are successful using Devin - Work closely with customers to understand their technical challenges and identify the best use cases for Devin to be a productive contributor - Build deep relationships with our customers’ engineering teams to ensure smooth product integration and adoption, activating top users and driving product utilization - Build!
- Always listen to customer feedback, have a bias towards implementing requested features yourself, and advocate for the customers’ needs with the rest of the team - Be the customer oracle!