Cognition

Cognition

Research Engineer, Infrastructure

San Francisco

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 191 days ago
PythonC++Distributed SystemsMachine LearningDeep LearningPyTorchData EngineeringSystems EngineeringResearchCommunicationPipeline Integrity

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About the role

  • We're the makers of Devin, the first AI software engineer.
  • 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.
  • Every training run, evaluation loop, and experimental iteration depends on systems that are fast, reliable, and built to scale.

Responsibilities

  • 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.

Requirements

  • Proficiency in Python and C++
  • Hands-on experience with GPU performance profiling, memory optimization, and compute efficiency
  • Experience implementing or optimizing parallelism strategies (data, tensor, pipeline, sequence) for large model training

Company info

  • We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities throughout the hiring process - please let us know if you need any.
  • WE ARE AN APPLIED AI LAB BUILDING END-TO-END SOFTWARE AGENTS.

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.

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