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Conduct AI safety and alignment research for autonomous software agents. Build release-gating evaluations, red-team models and agent harnesses, develop alignment methods, and improve permissions, oversight, escalation, and model behavior. The role combines empirical research engineering with production agent development, requiring collaboration across safety, post-training, and agent teams, plus contributions to external safety research.

Lead Cognition’s safety function for Devin and its underlying models. Set safety strategy, build evaluations and red-teaming for agentic risks, shape model training and agent-harness safeguards, establish deployment policies, and hire and lead safety researchers and engineers. The role requires hands-on frontier AI safety or alignment experience, agentic systems expertise, research credibility, technical fluency, and strong judgment under uncertainty.

Own late-stage LLM training decisions across data mixing, capability injection, synthetic data, annealing schedules, context extension, evaluation, and scaling. Develop methods that improve coding, mathematics, and long-horizon reasoning while translating research into production training systems. The role requires end-to-end understanding of the LLM pipeline, hands-on large-model training experience, strong optimization and machine learning fundamentals, and demonstrated original technical contributions.

Build and lead Cognition’s analyst relations program, managing Gartner, Forrester, IDC, and boutique analyst relationships. Own briefing calendars, Magic Quadrant and evaluation submissions, RFI strategy, customer references, stakeholder preparation, and analyst insights for Sales and Marketing. Develop strategic narratives that clearly position Devin and communicate its value to enterprise buyers.

Own Cognition’s paid demand engine and scale qualified enterprise pipeline. Develop channel, audience, budget, offer, and campaign strategies across paid search, social, technical media, communities, and emerging channels. Execute campaigns, analyze downstream pipeline performance, test creative and landing experiences, build experimentation systems, and optimize investment based on CAC, incrementality, and revenue impact. Partner with Product Marketing, Design, Web, RevOps, Sales, and enablement while using AI to accelerate performance marketing.

Develop and execute integrated enterprise B2B marketing campaigns for Cognition’s AI software agents. Create content, demos, webinars, tools, and campaigns for technical and executive buying groups; coordinate paid, email, web, social, partner, field, and sales promotion; tailor programs to industry segments; and optimize engagement, pipeline, opportunity progression, and revenue outcomes.

Own Cognition’s SEO and AEO strategy and execution across Devin, Windsurf, and its broader web presence. Build a high-intent organic content engine, optimize technical and on-page SEO, develop authority and backlinks, improve visibility across AI answer engines, and create conversion-focused search experiences. Measure success through qualified traffic, account engagement, conversions, and enterprise pipeline while building scalable processes, tooling, reporting, and cross-functional workflows.

Build and lead Cognition’s enterprise demand engine across priority verticals and strategic accounts. Develop and execute 1:1, 1:few, and 1:many ABM campaigns; coordinate Product Marketing, Sales, RevOps, Paid, Web, and Field Marketing; convert customer proof into demand; analyze account-level pipeline; run rapid campaign tests; and scale successful motions into repeatable enterprise GTM playbooks.

Design and scale the technical infrastructure supporting go-to-market operations. Own CRM, marketing automation, sales, customer success, data warehouse integrations, and automated workflows for routing, scoring, enrichment, territories, and lifecycle management. Ensure data quality, support reporting and forecasting, evaluate tools, and partner with Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, and RevOps to improve efficiency and visibility.

Owns employee onboarding from offer acceptance through the first week. Coordinates background checks, I-9 verification, HR records, immigration needs, travel, laptop delivery, systems access, and first-week schedules. Partners with Recruiting, IT, managers, office teams, and immigration providers to resolve issues proactively. Maintains onboarding trackers, checklists, and communications while improving processes and delivering personalized experiences for all hires, including executives.