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Head of Safety

Cognition AI

San Francisco, CA · Lead / Staff / Principal

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What this role is

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. The full posting is on their site.

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What they ask for

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

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