Deployed Engineer, Federal

Cognition
Washington DC, San Francisco
Workplace: RemoteFull timeFunction: Government & Public AdministrationSkills: ["Python","TypeScript","APIs","Cloud","Deployments"]

Foundational federal engineer responsible for shaping the technical direction and success of strategic federal accounts. You will own deployments, architect integrations, translate customer needs into product requirements, influence the Cognition platform stack for government clients, and collaborate across GTM, product, and engineering to drive high-impact, scalable solutions in a fast-growing, mission-driven team.

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Cognition
Cognition
7 months ago

Deployed Engineer, Federal

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Job Summary

Foundational federal engineer responsible for shaping the technical direction and success of strategic federal accounts. You will own deployments, architect integrations, translate customer needs into product requirements, influence the Cognition platform stack for government clients, and collaborate across GTM, product, and engineering to drive high-impact, scalable solutions in a fast-growing, mission-driven team.
Location: Washington DC, San Francisco
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Government & Public Administration

Key Responsibilities

  • •Operate across strategic accounts, providing technical depth on complex engagements
  • •Own the technical direction and success of customer accounts and deployments
  • •Translate customer pain points into product direction: scope requirements, define solutions, and drive implementation
  • •Be the connective link between our Federal GTM team and core product engineering teams.
  • •Build product extensions and integrations using Cognition’s APIs and platform primitives

Key Requirements

  • •Strong engineering foundation
  • •Have operated cross-functionally—whether at a startup wearing multiple hats or by driving product/commercial thinking at a larger company
  • •Experience working within the government or working in a government focused company.
  • •Have a track record of pursuing excellence at high levels, in any domain
  • •Proficiency in Python, TypeScript, or similar; comfort navigating unfamiliar codebases
Experience:AIFederal
Skills:PythonTypeScriptAPIsCloudDeployments
Tech Stack:PythonTypeScriptAPIsCloudKubernetesDocker

Company Brief

Cognition
Builds Devin, an autonomous AI software engineer and AI-native developer tools (Windsurf, DeepWiki) to automate software engineering workflows for enterprise customers.
Industry: Developer Tools
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Revenue: USD 50M to 100M
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series C
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2023
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Glassdoor: 4.7
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