AI Talent Matrix Company Profile
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.
AI ImpactHigh Confidence93.93 evidence itemsView evidence
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.
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.
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.
AI LeadershipHigh Confidence923 evidence itemsView evidence
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.
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.
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.
Employer StrengthHigh Confidence933 evidence itemsView evidence
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.
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.
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.
Market TransferabilityHigh Confidence963 evidence itemsView evidence
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.
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.
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.
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
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
Methodology
View Matrix Employer Score™ Methodology →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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