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Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Cognition AI

New York, NY

$260,000 – $300,000

Listed on Cognition AI’s own careers site. You apply with them directly — we never stand between you and the employer.

What this role is

This role builds the compute, orchestration, and platform infrastructure that powers Cognition's AI agent products at scale, from sandboxed execution environments to developer tooling and observability systems. It suits engineers with deep distributed systems experience who want to work on infrastructure that directly enables AI agents to execute complex, long-horizon tasks reliably across millions of sessions.

Our summary, not Cognition AI’s wording. The full posting is on their site.

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What they ask for

Required

  • Design and operate large-scale distributed infrastructure
  • Proficiency with Kubernetes and cloud platforms
  • Python proficiency and ownership of complex systems codebases
  • Experience with sandboxing and network isolation
  • Understanding of reliability, failure modes, and operational excellence

Nice to have

  • Experience at a frontier AI lab or applied AI company
  • Experience at a developer tools company
  • Degree from a top-tier university in Computer Science, Mathematics, or Engineering

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