Cognition
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Funding and backers
Total raised
$6.6M
2 rounds on record
Latest round
$1.6M
Venture round · Aug 2025 · 14 mo ago
Team
33
US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2025 · -3% in a year
Hiring now
97
+10 posted in 30 days
Backers
22
South Park Commons, Pear VC
The money's age
Due for its next round
14 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
29/100
hiring for its size, a new city, in the news
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Sep 10
On the Hacker News front page Cognition launches new SWE-2 model, Rivaling Fable 5.1 and GPT-Astra · 447 points
Jul 24
First role in Spain Deployed Engineer - EMEA
Jul 8
On the Hacker News front page SWE-1.7 Reach Near GPT 5.5 and Opus Intelligence · 272 points
Aug 13, 2025
Raised a round Venture round $1.6M · SEC Form D
Sep 13, 2023
Raised a round Venture round $5M · SEC Form D
2023
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.35%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
17
best: 447 points
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venture round | Aug 2025 | $1.6M | — | SEC Form D |
| Venture round | Sep 2023 | $5M | — | SEC Form D |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | Cognition Corp | SEC Form D |
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Dale GallaherExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Gerald WeselExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
David CroninExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
South Park Commons 
Pear VC 
Bessemer Venture Partners 
Battery Ventures 
Kleiner Perkins 
Andreessen Horowitz 
General Catalyst 
137 Ventures 
Abstract 
Accel 
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How Cognition hires
Truth index
B 81/100
Median time to fill
53 days
Ghost roles
31%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
0%
Cognition scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 97 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 31% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 53 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
Overview
Cognition is an applied artificial intelligence lab founded in 2023 that created Devin, an autonomous software engineering agent able to plan, write and debug code across a full repository. The company drew attention for demonstrating long-horizon coding work rather than single-file completion, and it sells Devin to engineering organisations. In 2025 it acquired the Windsurf coding assistant team and product, broadening its developer tooling.
News
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Cognition over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
65
Postings analysed
99
Stack modernity
80/100AI adopter
Languages
Python30%
TypeScript21%
SQL6%
Go4%
Frameworks & libraries
PyTorch3%
Dagster1%
JAX1%
PyTorch C++1%
Databases
BigQuery1%
Google BigQuery1%
Snowflake1%
Cloud & platforms
Scale AI100%
AWS8%
Azure8%
GCP8%
AI & ML
LLM4%
ChatGPT1%
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Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$223k
Typical range
$110k – $300k
Open positions
12
7
Jobs
Junior
14.3%
Middle
42.9%
Architect
42.9%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Junior | 1 | $250k | $250k |
| Middle | 3 | $225k | $157k – $225k |
| Architect | 3 | $180k | $160k – $220k |
Highest paying role
Software Engineer, Infrastructure
$300k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Cognition
By role, level and city, against the market · 12 jobs with pay
People
Dale Gallaher
Executive Officer, Director
Gerald Wesel
Executive Officer, Director
David Cronin
Executive Officer, Director
Robert Forlenza
Director
Jeff Williams
Director
Names and roles come from public filings, company registers and the company's own site. Is this you? Correct or remove · How we handle this data
Growth
Hiring Momentum
69/100
Growing
Open positions
97
10 opened / 6 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
53 days
faster than 26% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~3 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Sales
21% ▲
Administrative
15% ▼
AI/ML
13% ▼
Marketing
11% ▲
HR
9% ▼
Backend
6% ▼
Actively hiring for Sales (+5 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
Added Reward Modeling to stack
Oct 2026
Added Machine Learning to stack
Oct 2026
Added JAX to stack
Oct 2026
Added Interpretability to stack
Oct 2026
Added Human-in-the-Loop to stack
Oct 2026
New location: Madrid
Sep 2026
New location: Brazil
Sep 2026
New location: India
Sep 2026
Added FedRAMP to stack
Sep 2026
Added Perplexity to stack
Sep 2026
Added Claude to stack
Sep 2026
Added Zapier to stack
Sep 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
12
Hiring now
12
Countries
9
Busiest office
San Francisco
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San Francisco
United States
HQ
36 open roles 21 posted in 90 days 36% engineering 200-500 est. staff $248k Avg Salary
hires for AI/ML, Marketing, Backend
New York
United States
Engineering / R&D
25 open roles 10 posted in 90 days 28% engineering 50-200 est. staff $211k Avg Salary
hires for Sales, Marketing, AI/ML
London
United Kingdom
Engineering / R&D
11 open roles 5 posted in 90 days 9% engineering 50-200 est. staff $225k Avg Salary
hires for Administrative, Marketing, Sales
Tokyo
Japan
Sales office
8 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 13% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for Sales, Solutions, AI/ML
Singapore
Singapore
Engineering / R&D
7 open roles 3 posted in 90 days 29% engineering 50-200 est. staff $225k Avg Salary
hires for AI/ML, HR, Marketing
Austin
United States
Sales office
7 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 14% engineering 10-50 est. staff $187k Avg Salary
hires for Marketing, Solutions, Management
Washington
United States
Engineering / R&D
6 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 17% engineering 10-50 est. staff $195k Avg Salary
hires for Operations, DevOps, Administrative
Doha
Qatar
Engineering / R&D
3 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 33% remote 10-50 est. staff
hires for Marketing, Operations, Solutions
Mexico City
Mexico
Engineering / R&D
2 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff
hires for Marketing, Solutions
Seoul
South Korea
Engineering / R&D
2 open roles 10-50 est. staff
hires for Operations, Solutions
Berlin
Germany
Sales office
1 open roles 1-10 est. staff
hires for Marketing
Madrid
Spain
Engineering / R&D
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 1-10 est. staff
hires for Solutions
Jobs
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Python
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Machine Learning
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GCP
Azure
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Kubernetes
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LLM
Synthetic Data
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Devin
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Cursor
RLHF
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Devin
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RLAIF
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Python
C++
PyTorch C++
AI/ML
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Devin
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Python
TypeScript
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Function Calling
AI Agents
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Tool Use
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$260k – $300k per year • In office • Full-Time • Bachelor's Degree • San Francisco • New York
Python
Cursor
Windsurf
AI Agents
Devin
Scale AI
DevOps
Terraform
GCP
Azure
CI/CD
AWS
Kubernetes
Apply
≈ $155k – $326k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • Bachelor's Degree • San Francisco • New York
Python
Cursor
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Function Calling
AI Agents
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Tool Use
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$125k – $156k per year • Remote (ANZ) • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • Sydney
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TypeScript
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Model Context Protocol
LLM
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Agentic Workflows
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