Deployed Engineer, Federal
AI summary of the role
As one of the first engineers in Cognition's newly formed federal group, you will own technical direction and success for strategic federal accounts, architect deployments, build integrations, and translate customer pain into product requirements.
What you’ll do
- Own technical direction and success of customer accounts and deployments
- Translate customer pain points into product direction: scope requirements, define solutions, and drive implementation
- Build product extensions and integrations using Cognition’s APIs and platform primitives
- Architect and maintain complex enterprise deployments
What you’ll bring
- Strong engineering foundation
- Experience working within the government or working in a government focused company
- Proficiency in Python, TypeScript, or similar; comfort navigating unfamiliar codebases
- Experience scoping and shipping features in collaboration with product and engineering teams
Technologies
Python · TypeScript · APIs · enterprise deployments · cloud deployments · networking · security
About Cognition AI
Applied AI lab building end-to-end software engineering agents (Devin) and an AI-native IDE (Windsurf) for engineering teams.
Series C
Source and classification
Implementation & delivery · Evidence for this classification:
but will also play a key role in the strategic growth and scaling of the entire federal engineering organization, establishing core engineering practices, defining our technical stack for federal clients, and directly influencing the culture of a fast-growing, mission-driven team. Your early contributions and leadership will be essential in defining the trajectory of our federal sector, making this an unparalleled opportunity for high-impact ownership and professional development. Deployed Engineers bring technical depth to Cognition’s most federal enterprise engagements. You’ll own a narrow set of strategic accounts, tackling the hardest problems—whether that’s architecting a deployment, building an integration, or debugging something no one else can figure out. A core part of this role is shaping the product. You'll identify patterns from the field, build on the product edge to
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We are an applied AI lab building end-to-end software agents. We're the makers of Devin, the first AI software engineer. Our team is extremely 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 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. About the Role This is an unparalleled opportunity to join our team as a foundational engineer in our newly formed federal group. As one of the very first engineers in this critical space, you will not only be instrumental in shaping the technical direction and initial project successes but will also play a key role in the strategic growth and scaling of the entire federal engineering organization, establishing core engineering practices, defining our technical stack for federal clients, and directly influencing the culture of a fast-growing, mission-driven team. Your early contributions and leadership will be essential in defining the trajectory of our federal sector, making this an unparalleled opportunity for high-impact ownership and professional development. Deployed Enginee [... source excerpt omitted ...] st problems—whether that’s architecting a deployment, building an integration, or debugging something no one else can figure out. A core part of this role is shaping the product. You'll identify patterns from the field, build on the product edge to unblock customers, and translate those learnings into requirements that inform what core engineering builds next. When customers hit friction that the product doesn’t solve, you’re the person who figures out what should exist—and makes it happen. You’ll own the technical direction of accounts, making decisions that shape long-term adoption, architecture, and how the Cognition platform evolves in real-world environments. Core Respo [... source excerpt omitted ...] ities Operate across strategic accounts, providing technical depth on complex engagements Own the technical direction and success of customer accounts and deployments Translate customer pain points into product direction: scope requirements, define solutions, and drive implementation Be the connective link between our Federal GTM team and core product engineering teams. Build product extensions and integrations using Cognition’s APIs and platform primitives Architect and maintain complex enterprise deployments Handle escalated technical issues requiring deep debugging or architectural judgment Be a credible technical voice to engineering on what the field needs What We V
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