Full Stack Design Engineer

at  Cognition

WE ARE AN APPLIED AI LAB BUILDING END-TO-END SOFTWARE AGENTS.

We’re the makers of Devin, the first AI software engineer. Cognition is building collaborative AI teammates that enable engineers to focus on more interesting problems and empower engineering 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, 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

We’re looking for experienced full stack design engineers who thrive in fast-moving startups, and are excited to set the standard UX for how developers will interact with coding agents.
You’ll work closely with other engineers, the product and go-to-market teams at Cognition, and our design partners.

IN THIS ROLE, YOU WILL:

• Build!
• Design performant, beautiful, and usable interfaces that developers love
• Perfect the details of interacting with coding agents to set the standard UX for agent products
• Advocate for our users and novel ideas by continuously iterating on and improving the product experience
• Plan and deploy front end infrastructure necessary to build, test, and deploy the Devin app
• Own the end-to-end development from design concept to implementing server-side logic and integrating with databases using backend technologies (e.g., Node.js, Python, Java)
• Create and maintain RESTful APIs to connect frontend and backend systems
• Contribute more broadly to Devin’s development

REQUIREMENTS FOR THE ROLE:

• Demonstrate a track record of exceptional achievements and impactful contributions in your academic and/or professional experiences
• Thrive in ambiguous and rapidly changing environments — you’re willing to move fast and quickly grow in scope and responsibility
• You have a demonstrated exceptional ability to learn
• You have experience building production web apps at scale using TypeScript, NextJS , React, JavaScript, CSS and other web technologies