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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.\nBuilding 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.\nAbout the role\nWe’re looking for a Network Engineer to own the reliability, security, and evolution of Cognition’s global office\nnetworks.\nStrong candidates have operated networks in a hypergrowth startup and thrive amid rapid change, ambiguity, and high ownership. They will apply deep wireless and routing expertise and a builder mindset to deliver scalable wired, wireless, and cloud-connected networks, repeatable office infrastructure, and strong observability and automation. 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