# Head of Safety

Hiring organization: [Cognition AI](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/cognition-ai)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/76b0b2a8-adba-438a-b8b8-7b381e26235a

Listed on Cognition AI's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Seniority: Lead / Staff / Principal
- Location: San Francisco, CA

## Summary

Lead the safety and alignment work for Devin, an autonomous AI agent in production that performs real actions on customer systems. This role requires building safety strategy from scratch—from research agenda through evaluation programs and deployment policies—and leading a team, suited for someone who has shipped safety work at a frontier AI lab and understands how agentic systems fail in practice.

_Our summary, not Cognition AI's wording._

## Skills named

Psychological Evaluations, Python

## Required

- Hands-on safety, alignment, evaluations, or red-teaming work at a frontier AI lab
- Understanding of how agents fail: tool misuse, specification gaming, long-horizon drift, adversarial inputs
- Technical fluency in Python and ML training/inference stack
- Experience building or scaling a safety function

## Nice to have

- Published or widely-used safety research, evals, or methods
- Advanced degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or related field
- Track record of deployment decisions with incomplete information

Apply on Cognition AI's site: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/cognition/43f38460-632b-4b0a-8b14-888d117b2e07/application