Partner Deployed Engineer
Cognition is hiring a Partner Deployed Engineer in San Francisco, United States. Level rates it ; you can apply on Cognition.
Level's read on this job
- On Level's scale, this role is Works on AI ●●●○: the daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
- Tools and skills the posting cites include Cursor and Devin.
- Level lists 104 other open roles at Cognition.
AI in this role
We are an applied AI lab building end-to-end software agents.
We're the makers of Devin, the first AI software engineer.
Our team is extremely 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, Palantir, 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.
About the Role
At Cognition, partners are force multipliers. Partner Deployed Engineers (Partner DEs) are partner-facing (and customer-facing) technical experts who enable services partners such as Global Systems Integrators to successfully deploy, scale, and deliver value with Devin across their client base.
In this role, you will work closely with partner solution architects, delivery leads, and engineering teams to help them build repeatable offerings and internal expertise on top of the Cognition platform. Rather than owning a single customer, you’ll amplify impact by enabling partners to support many customers at scale.
This role blends deep technical work, partner enablement, and ecosystem thinking. You’ll lead technical enablement sessions, co-deliver pilots, unblock complex deployments, and help GSIs operationalize Devin into their delivery motions. You’ll act as Cognition’s technical representative within partner organizations.
In This Role, You Will
Own the technical success of GSI partners across onboarding, enablement, and scaled delivery of Devin
Work directly with partner engineering and architecture teams to understand their delivery models, tooling, and customer use cases
Enable partners to build repeatable solutions, accelerators, and reference architectures using Devin
Lead technical trainings, workshops, and deep dives for partner teams (hands-on, not slideware)
Support partner-led customer pilots and early production deployments, stepping in where complexity is highest
Act as a technical escalation point for complex integrations, security reviews, CI/CD environments, and enterprise workflows
Build strong, trust-based relationships with partner technical leaders in GSIs (e.g., delivery heads, principal engineers, solution architects)
Capture field learnings and partner feedback to influence product roadmap, packaging, and partner readiness
Proactively identify gaps in partner capability and work with internal teams to close them
What We Value
Partner expertise. You understand how GSIs operate, deliver projects, and measure success
Ownership mindset. You take responsibility for partner outcomes, not just enablement activities
Technical depth. You can reason about real systems, not just demos
Leverage thinking. You prefer enabling 10 teams over doing the work for 1
Bias toward execution. You move quickly from concept to working deployment
Comfort with ambiguity. Partner environments are messy; you thrive in that reality
Requirements
Degree in STEM field and a strong engineering foundation from a rigorous technical environment
Demonstrated track record of exceptional performance in academic, professional, or entrepreneurial pursuits
Experience working with or alongside large engineering teams (enterprise or services environments preferred)
Strong communication skills; you can engage credibly and build relationships with senior partner leaders, architects, and executives
High tolerance for ambiguity, intensity, and sustained effort when required
Willingness to travel 25–50%, including frequent travel to India and partner/customer sites
You Might Excel If You…
Are advanced in at least one modern programming language (e.g., Python, TypeScript)
Have experience writing, debugging, and deploying real production systems
Have worked with SI / GSI delivery models, enterprise software deployments, or large-scale developer platforms
Enjoy enabling others to be successful, not just building things yourself
Learn quickly by embedding in complex, real-world environments
Have operated beyond your formal job description in high-growth or early-stage settings or have previously founded a startup
Thrive in roles that require you to context switch quickly and handle a broad range of technical and non-technical problems
Our Commitment
Equal Opportunity. Cognition is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected characteristic under applicable law. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities throughout the hiring process - please let us know if you need any. Cognition also considers applicants with criminal histories consistent with the SF Fair Chance Ordinance and similar local laws.
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How we rate this
Partner Deployed Engineer at Cognition rates 77 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Works on AI (AI Level 3 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
Works on AI. The daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
- ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
- ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
- ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
- ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39
Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.
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Skills and AI tools this role asks for
Questions you could be asked
- What's a project where you used Cursor hands-on?
- Walk me through how you've used Devin in your day-to-day work.
- Describe a typical day in a role like this one: which parts run through AI directly?
- If you removed AI from this role, what would be left, and how do you decide what still needs a human?
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- List these exact terms on your resume: Cursor and Devin. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
- Attach one line of real, concrete experience to at least one of them. A tool named with nothing behind it rarely survives a human read.
- Show where AI is part of your daily process, not a one-off project. This role expects it to be a running habit.
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