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Cognition

AI Applications / Coding Agents · San Francisco, California, USA

Matrix Employer Score™

93.11

High confidence

Employer Intelligence Evidence

Evidence-backed signals supporting our assessment of this AI employer.

Evidence-backed
AI Impact
High Confidence
93.9
3 evidence items
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Supporting signal

Developer AI Adoption & Production Impact

Developer AI Adoption & Production Impact

Medium Confidence

Oct 7, 2026

Cognition's Tavrn customer case reports Devin embedded across engineering and operations after six weeks and handling four out of five questions previously routed to engineers through scoped, logged access. This named operational outcome is independent of annualized company revenue.

Source: CognitionCompanyOpen source ↗

Developer AI Adoption & Production Impact

High Confidence

Sep 26, 2026

Cognition reported crossing a $1B annualized revenue run rate by September 2026 after rapid enterprise adoption of Devin and Windsurf across major global companies.

Source: Cognition BlogCompanyOpen source ↗

Frontier Model And Enterprise Adoption

High Confidence

Sep 26, 2026

Cognition reported crossing a $1B annualized revenue run rate by September 2026 after rapid enterprise adoption of Devin and Windsurf across major global companies.

Source: Cognition BlogCompanyOpen source ↗
Evidence items: 3Methodology: v1.2Updated: Oct 7, 2026
AI Leadership
High Confidence
92
3 evidence items
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Supporting signal

AI Developer Platform Leadership

AI Developer Platform Leadership

High Confidence

Oct 7, 2026

Cognition's October 2025 SWE-1.5 technical report describes coding RL environments combining correctness tests, code-quality rubrics and browser-agent end-to-end grading, with human experts attempting to circumvent graders through reward hardening.

Source: CognitionCompanyOpen source ↗

Frontier Research Leadership

High Confidence

Sep 26, 2026

Cognition develops Devin, cloud coding agents, multi-agent orchestration, specialized software-engineering models such as SWE-1.6 and SWE-check, and an integrated agentic IDE platform through Windsurf.

Source: Cognition BlogCompanyOpen source ↗

AI Developer Platform Leadership

High Confidence

Sep 26, 2026

Cognition develops Devin, cloud coding agents, multi-agent orchestration, specialized software-engineering models such as SWE-1.6 and SWE-check, and an integrated agentic IDE platform through Windsurf.

Source: Cognition BlogCompanyOpen source ↗
Evidence items: 3Methodology: v1.2Updated: Oct 7, 2026
Employer Strength
High Confidence
93
3 evidence items
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Supporting signal

Developer Ecosystem Employer Strength

Developer Ecosystem Employer Strength

Medium Confidence

Oct 7, 2026

Cognition reported crossing $1 billion annualized revenue run rate on September 25, 2026. This commercial-scale metric is independent of existing September financing and strategic-relationship evidence.

Source: CognitionCompanyOpen source ↗

Developer Ecosystem Employer Strength

High Confidence

Sep 26, 2026

Cognition raised over $2B at a $48B valuation in September 2026 and has strategic enterprise relationships with customers and partners including Cognizant, Citi, Mercedes-Benz, Goldman Sachs, AWS and others.

Source: Cognition Series ECompanyOpen source ↗

Deployment Capacity

High Confidence

Sep 26, 2026

Cognition raised over $2B at a $48B valuation in September 2026 and has strategic enterprise relationships with customers and partners including Cognizant, Citi, Mercedes-Benz, Goldman Sachs, AWS and others.

Source: Cognition Series ECompanyOpen source ↗
Evidence items: 3Methodology: v1.2Updated: Oct 7, 2026
Market Transferability
High Confidence
96
3 evidence items
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Supporting signal

Software & AI Engineering Transferability

Software & AI Engineering Transferability

Medium Confidence

Oct 7, 2026

Cognition documents end-to-end reinforcement learning in software task environments, joint iteration on the Cascade agent harness and model, and grading using tests, code-quality rubrics and browser-based end-to-end checks for SWE-1.5.

Source: CognitionCompanyOpen source ↗

Software & AI Engineering Transferability

High Confidence

Sep 26, 2026

Cognition combines autonomous agents, coding models, IDEs, cloud execution, testing, enterprise integrations and large-scale software engineering deployment, making its technical skills exceptionally portable across AI developer-tooling employers.

Source: Cognition BlogCompanyOpen source ↗

Frontier Agent Skill Transferability

High Confidence

Sep 26, 2026

Cognition combines autonomous agents, coding models, IDEs, cloud execution, testing, enterprise integrations and large-scale software engineering deployment, making its technical skills exceptionally portable across AI developer-tooling employers.

Source: Cognition BlogCompanyOpen source ↗
Evidence items: 3Methodology: v1.2Updated: Oct 7, 2026

Matrix Employer Score™ components are supported by structured employer evidence, versioned methodologies, and confidence ratings.

Hiring Signal

Hiring

Employer Signal

93

Hiring Opportunity

96

Company Overview

Employer Snapshot

AI Category

AI Applications / Coding Agents

Primary Location

San Francisco, California, USA

Founded

—

Employees

200

Why AI Talent Watches Cognition

Cognition builds autonomous software engineering agents, including Devin and Windsurf, with research and engineering focused on reasoning, coding, model training, infrastructure, and end-to-end software agents.

Why Join

Work on autonomous software agents in a highly technical team spanning reasoning, coding, model training, infrastructure, and deployment.

Employer Intelligence

Hiring: Hiring

Talent Competition: Exceptional

Technical Bar: Exceptional

AI Talent Matrix Confidence: High confidence

Talent Intelligence

Matrix Employer Score™ Breakdown

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Core Employer Intelligence

AI Impact

93.9

AI Leadership

92

Employer Strength

93

Market Transferability

96

Career & Workplace

Career Growth

100

Compensation

100

Engineering Culture

100

Work-Life Balance

50

Evidence-Backed Signals

Career Upside

100

Talent Density

100

Hiring Opportunity

96

Talent & Career Programs

Remote Policy

On-site / Hybrid

Visa Sponsorship

Case by Case

Internship Program

Limited

New Grad Program

Limited

AI Focus

Coding Agents / Reasoning / Applied AI

Flagship Products

Devin; Windsurf

Data & Methodology

How AI Talent Matrix interprets this employer

Last Updated

9/3/2026

AI Talent Matrix Confidence

High confidence

AI Talent Matrix scores and signals are comparative employer-intelligence indicators and should not be interpreted as guarantees of hiring, compensation, career outcomes, or individual fit.

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