Research Engineer, Safety & Alignment

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…

Safety or alignment research experience: Hands-on work on evaluations, red-teaming, alignment, or interpretability at a frontier AI lab or in published research. You have…

You know how agents fail in practice: tool misuse, specification gaming, long-horizon drift, adversarial inputs. You have measured it or have concrete ideas about…

Proficiency in Python and PyTorch (or JAX). You can build eval infrastructure, run experiments at scale, and read the training and inference code.

You design clean experiments, report results honestly, and know the difference between a real improvement and noise.

Comfort with adversarial thinking: You enjoy breaking systems and are good at it.

Prior experience at a frontier AI lab, applied AI company, or developer tools company.