Research Engineer, Safety & Alignment
Cognition is hiring for Research Engineer, Safety & Alignment in San Francisco. Senior level. First seen October 10, 2026; open as of November 11, 2026. Jobs taken straight from company career pages — no aggregator in between.
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- Company
- Cognition
- Where
- San Francisco
- Level
- Senior
- First seen
- October 10, 2026
- Listed via
- Ashby
What the posting says
You will be a founding member of Cognition's safety team, reporting to the Head of Safety. You will build the evaluations and red-teaming that gate every release, develop alignment methods that shape how our models are trained, and work directly with the agent team on how Devin plans, acts, and asks for help. This is a hands-on research engineering role for someone who wants their safety work to run in the loop of a real agent, not sit in a benchmark. WHAT YOU'LL ACCOMPLISH - Build agentic safety evals: Design and run evaluations for the failure modes that matter for autonomous agents:…
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