Hiring: Software Engineer Company: Cognition Location: New York City Metropolitan Area Job Posted Time: 2026-09-13 10:20:17 Target Skills & Keywords : Chef, LLM, Python About the job Experience: •5 years of software engineering will look fundamentally different from the last 5. Required Skills: •Be working on some of the hardest open problems in applied AI: how do you build an agent that can reason across thousands of lines of code, spawn and coordinate subagents, use tools reliably across ambiguous long-horizon tasks, and do all of this in a way that a real engineer would trust? •Ship systems that go directly into Devin and Windsurf, two products that millions of developers use to write, debug, and ship code. •Have real input into what gets built next and why. Compensation: •$260,000 - $300,000 / year •Base Salary: $260,000 - $300,000 + Significant early-stage equity Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!