Software Engineer (AI specialist)

We live in a world that runs on physical industries like energy, logistics, and manufacturing. These sectors are essential to our economy and daily lives, yet they are held back by inefficiencies, fragile legacy systems, and decades-old ways of working. This is not just a business problem; it is a societal one. When grids fail, supply chains stall, or factories falter, entire economies are disrupted. These companies face unique, complex challenges that typical software was never designed to solve. Cogna was founded to change this. Our mission is to give critical industries their own AI-powered Software Factory: a way to build and deploy bespoke digital tools that solve pressing operational challenges.

Since our launch in May 2023, we’ve seen incredible customer traction and revenue growth. We’re backed by leading VCs, including Notion Capital and Hoxton Ventures, and we’re building a world-class team to take on one of the most important challenges of our time. Tackling challenges at this scale takes people who are curious, adaptable, and motivated by impact. If our mission resonates with you, we encourage you to apply, even if your experience doesn’t match every requirement. We are committed to building a diverse team that reflects the industries and societies we serve.

Overview: We are looking for a creative Software Engineer with a passion for developing scalable, reliable, efficient, and beautiful AI-first software and have a strong sense of ingenuity. You will be part of an all-star early team, building the future of software. We’ve been building product with AI at its core for enterprise customers since the early days of GPT-3.5 to the latest and greatest models, and have built internal tooling to efficiently and effectively work with LLMs.

We understand that building reliable products using AI is much more than writing a good prompt. We put a lot of thought and effort into making outputs of LLMs reliable and verifiable in our product, whether that’s code or more unstructured outputs. We have frameworks for evaluation, verification, specialized code and test generation pipelines, agentic behavior, RAG, observability and orchestration tooling, and many more... all widely used across our product, neatly integrated, and informed by real customer and product needs. Each of these are constantly evolving to adapt to the state of the art, and being built by a world-class team who are always experimenting. You’ll be helping to develop these, as well as using them to build the “brain” of our platform: building agents and end-to-end pipelines to understand the customer’s pain points, define requirements, and generate.