Delta Engineer (AI)

TL;DR

Delta Engineer (AI): Providing technical depth to federal enterprise engagements and owning strategic accounts, tackling complex problems such as architecting deployments, building integrations, and debugging issues. Focus on translating customer pain points into product direction and building product extensions and integrations using Cognition’s APIs and platform.

Location: Washington DC, San Francisco Bay Area. Hybrid

Company

We are an applied AI lab building end-to-end software agents.

What you will do

• Operate across strategic accounts, providing technical depth on complex engagements.
• Own the technical direction and success of customer accounts and deployments.
• Translate customer pain points into product direction: scope requirements, define solutions, and drive implementation.
• Build product extensions and integrations using Cognition’s APIs and platform primitives.
• Architect and maintain complex enterprise deployments.
• Handle escalated technical issues requiring deep debugging or architectural judgment.

Requirements

• Strong engineering foundation.
• Have operated cross-functionally.
• Experience working within the government or working in a government focused company.
• Have a track record of pursuing excellence at high levels, in any domain.
• Proficiency in Python, TypeScript, or similar; comfort navigating unfamiliar codebases.
• Experience scoping and shipping features in collaboration with product and engineering teams.

Nice to have

• Have built software at companies known for engineering rigor and want broader impact.
• Track record in forward-deployed engineering, solutions architecture, or similar technical roles.
• Experience with enterprise infrastructure (cloud deployments, networking, security).
• Want to stay close to customers while shaping how the product evolves.
• Enjoy hard problems without obvious solutions and the autonomy to figure them out.

Culture & Benefits

• Small and talent-dense team.
• Opportunity to solve some of the world’s biggest problems and build AI that can reason on real-world tasks.
• Play a key role in the strategic growth and scaling of the entire federal engineering organization.
• Establish core engineering practices and define the technical stack for federal clients.
• Directly influence the culture of a fast-growing, mission-driven team.