Search & AI Discoverability Lead

Cognition is hiring a Search & AI Discoverability Lead in New York, United States. Level rates it ; you can apply on Cognition.

Level's read on this job

Works on AI ●●●○ is how Level rates this role: the daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
Tools and skills the posting cites include ChatGPT, Claude and Cursor.
Level classifies it as a lead role.
Level lists 108 other open roles at Cognition.
The role was posted in the last few days.

AI in this role

ChatGPTClaudeCursorDevin

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.

Role Mission

Developers research before they buy. Some of that still happens on Google. More of it now happens by asking ChatGPT, Claude or a coding agent, and on YouTube, Reddit, GitHub and X. The AI coding category is new enough that the answers in all of those places are still open.

You will own how people and agents find Devin and Cognition. That covers answer engine optimization (AEO) for the best AI assistants and agents, organic search on every platform where developers look, technical SEO, content strategy and programmatic pages. You will work directly with the web engineering team to ship, and you will be measured on how often we show up, the organic traffic that follows and the signups it produces.

What You'll Accomplish

Set the roadmap: Decide which questions, topics and platforms matter most across devin.ai and cognition.ai, prioritized by what drives signups.
Win in AI answers: Learn how the leading assistants and agents choose and cite sources, and make Cognition the answer they give for AI coding questions.
Show up on every platform: Google, YouTube, Reddit, GitHub, X and wherever else developers search, with content made for each one.
Fix the technical foundation: Site structure, performance, crawlability and content that both crawlers and agents can read, shipped with web engineering.
Build programmatic pages: Pages that answer real questions and convert, not just rank.
Report clearly: AI-answer visibility, rankings, organic traffic and signups, tracked and explained.

Exceptional Candidates Have Demonstrated

Discoverability results: You've made a product easier to find, in search, in AI answers or on another platform, and can show the before and after.
Technical ability: You can read a site crawl, write a clear spec, and work well with engineers.
Writing and editing: You can write or edit content developers trust.
Real experiments in AI search: You've tested what changes how AI assistants and agents answer, and you can tell what's proven from what's a guess.
Hands-on preference: You like doing the work yourself.

We care more about demonstrated capability than years of experience.

Resources & Environment

Two domains with real authority and a lot of untapped demand
Direct access to the web engineering and content teams
A small team with very little process

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

Search & AI Discoverability Lead at Cognition rates 71 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.

Classification

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.

Key facts

Search & AI Discoverability Lead is an open job at Cognition.
Level rates this role AI Level 3 of 4: Works on AI.
The role is based in New York City.
The job was posted on November 10, 2026.
Seniority: lead.
Applications are handled by Cognition. Apply on Cognition

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Skills and AI tools this role asks for

ChatGPTClaudeCursorDevin

Questions you could be asked

What's a project where you used ChatGPT hands-on?
Walk me through how you've used Claude in your day-to-day work.
What are the limits of Cursor that you've run into, and how did you work around them?
What's a project where you used Devin hands-on?
Describe a typical day in a role like this one: which parts run through AI directly?

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List these exact terms on your resume: ChatGPT, Claude, 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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