Developer Relations Engineer

We’re the makers of Devin, the first AI software engineer. Cognition is building collaborative AI teammates that enable engineers to focus on more interesting problems and empower engineering teams to strive for more ambitious goals.

Our team is small and talent-dense. Among our founding team, we have world-class competitive programmers, former founders, and leaders from companies at the cutting edge of AI including Scale AI, Cursor, Waymo, Tesla, Lunchclub, Modal, Google DeepMind, and Nuro.

Building Devin is just the first step—our hardest challenges still lie ahead. If you’re excited to solve some of the world’s biggest problems and build AI that can reason on real-world tasks, apply to join us.

As a Developer Relations Engineer you will be responsible for working with our developer community, our customers, and Cognition’s product teams to drive adoption of Devin via content, developer experience feedback, and advocacy. You would be our first Developer Relations hire, and a core part of your role will be ‘building the car as you drive it’ as you launch and shape our ongoing strategy and initiatives.

This role offers a unique opportunity to have a major impact on the direction of one of the fastest-growing AI startups and on the adoption of AI coding agents in the industry.

You’ll be successful in this role if you’re excited to discover and solve previously unachievable problems with Devin, if you love building and teaching others, and if you embody the drive and grit required to win in a fast-paced, high-intensity environment.

In this role, you will

• Create and maintain developer-focused content including tutorials, documentation, video content, and blog posts, to educate and engage both enterprise customers and self-service developers.

• Improve the developer experience by identifying pain points and feature requests, and own implementing those improvements.

• Build and nurture community relationships, organizing and participating in developer events, workshops, conferences, and online community channels.

• Shape our developer relations strategy alongside our GTM team to drive awareness, adoption, and utilization of Devin among existing and potential customers.

• Monitor and analyze developer engagement metrics to assess the effectiveness of content and the overall developer experience.

Requirements for the role

• Demonstrate a track record of educating developers on highly technical tools, building and activating developer communities, and driving adoption of developer tools

• You’re a natural relationship-builder, an excellent communicator and feel comfortable talking about complex technical topics with customers and developers in all roles and levels

• You have technical experience either as a software engineer, developer relations engineer, sales engineer or deployed engineer

• Thrive in ambiguous and rapidly changing environments — you’re willing to move fast and quickly grow in scope and responsibility

• You have a demonstrated exceptional ability to learn

You might excel if you…

• previously founded a startup

• Have deep expertise with AI, ML, and/or AI coding agents and tools

• are a competitive, highly ambitious person who loves working in high-intensity environments

• thrive in roles that require you to context switch quickly and handle a broad range of technical and non-technical problems

• like grinding