AI Support Engineer

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.

Our team is small and talent-dense. 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.

Building Devin and Windsurf is just the first step—our hardest challenges still lie ahead. 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.

Are you excited about the limitless possibilities of artificial intelligence and machine learning? Do you want to make these possibilities into realities for real people? If so, we have an extraordinary opportunity to join our startup as an AI Support Engineer.

Cognition and Windsurf give AI-powered tools to development teams at thousands of enterprises, from startups to Fortune 500 companies. Due to the complexity of enterprise tasks and environments, combined with the rapid evolution of the product itself, customer issues may come up that would reduce adoption and value driven if not addressed rapidly. You will be the first line of responding and resolving these customer issues, leveraging your computer science and AI knowledge to help customers effectively. Your role will be instrumental in driving adoption of AI technology.

This is a unique opportunity to work at an AI startup with real users.

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• 2+ years working in a technical role

• Bachelor's or higher degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field.

• Knowledge of distributed computing, containerization, and orchestration technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).

• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Java, or Go

• Strong organizational skills and customer friendliness.

• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic startup environment.

• Passion for artificial intelligence and large language models. Hands-on experience with these technologies is not required, but is a plus.

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.