Cognition

Cognition is an applied AI lab working on reasoning and agentic systems, with the stated aim of building AI teammates capable of operating beyond the limits of existing tools. Its principal product is Devin, described as the first fully autonomous AI software engineer, aimed at handling software engineering tasks end to end and freeing human engineers to concentrate on more interesting and impactful work.

The company describes itself as a small, talent-dense team of competitive programmers and builders. Founding team members hold ten IOI gold medals between them and have worked at Scale AI, Palantir, Cursor, Waymo, Tesla, Lunchclub, Modal, Google DeepMind and Nuro. The working culture is built around deep technical excellence, relentless problem-solving and a preference for monumental, long-horizon challenges in AI reasoning.

Technical domains span AI reasoning, applied AI, autonomous software engineering and agentic AI, with a focus on the software engineering and software development verticals. The firm is recruiting for a tightly knit team rather than a large organisation, which places a premium on individual technical depth.