QA Engineer - APAC
Cognition · Posted Sep 29
Autonomous AI software engineering agents and developer productivity tools
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About the role
Cognition is an applied AI lab building end-to-end software agents, best known for Devin, the first AI software engineer, alongside the Windsurf product. The team is highly talent-dense, with founding members from Scale AI, Palantir, Cursor, Waymo, Tesla, Google DeepMind, and Nuro. This QA Engineer role owns end-to-end product quality across AI workflows for Windsurf and Devin, covering onboarding, chat interactions, multi-file edits, agentic task execution, and autonomous workflows, and works with engineering and product on release readiness, test strategy, and scalable QA automation.
What you will do
- Own end-to-end product quality across AI workflows: Test Windsurf and Devin across onboarding flows, chat interactions, multi-file edits, agentic task execution, and autonomous workflows—thinking like a developer and testing like a user.
- Design and execute comprehensive test strategies: Build and run functional, regression, integration, exploratory, and E2E test plans across product surfaces and releases.
- Break down complex flows into testable scenarios: Identify edge cases, race conditions, state recovery failures, and real-world usage patterns that only emerge in production-like behavior.
- Issue reproduction, documentation, and debugging: Reproduce, document, and debug issues across layers—distinguishing between UI defects, orchestration/system issues, and unexpected AI behavior; work with engineering and product to drive resolution.
- Release readiness and quality bar ownership: Partner with engineering and product to define "done," set quality standards, and ensure releases meet the expectations of real developers.
- Build scalable QA processes and automation: Establish QA playbooks, test processes, and automation where it has leverage; help evolve CI/CD and testing practices as the product scales.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 5+ years of QA/Test Engineering experience testing complex product workflows (multi-step user journeys, cross-surface interactions, and E2E behavior).
- Deep expertise in functional, regression, exploratory, integration, and end-to-end testing methodologies.
- Strong developer mindset: comfortable reading/writing code (Python, TypeScript, or similar), navigating codebases, and reasoning about systems.
- User-first testing approach: you test from the perspective of real users, not just against a spec.
- Exceptional attention to detail and strong debugging instincts; able to communicate clearly and precisely in bug reports and triage.
- Familiarity with CI/CD and test automation frameworks; comfort working in fast-moving, release-driven environments.
- Schedule flexibility: overlap with US time zones required; release cycles may require weekend availability.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience testing AI-powered products with non-deterministic outputs; ability to evaluate quality when responses vary.
- Experience testing IDE plugins/extensions or developer tools (VS Code extensions, CLIs, code review systems).
- Familiarity with AI coding tools (Windsurf, Copilot, Cursor, Devin, etc.) and informed opinions on what "good" looks like.
- Prior software engineering background with shipped production code.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Cognition
Cognition is an applied artificial intelligence lab focused on reasoning and code, best known for developing Devin, the world's first fully autonomous AI software engineer. The company builds advanced AI agents designed to plan, write, test, and execute production-level code across existing developer workflows.
- Industry
- Artificial Intelligence
- Company size
- 200+ employees
- Founded
- November 2023
- Location
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Funding stage
- Private Company
Funding
Private Company · $1B+ raised
- 2024-03-01Venture Round$21M
- 2024-04-01Series A Extension$175M
- 2025-09-01Series B$400M
- 2026-05-27Venture Round$1B+
Leadership
Recent coverage
Investing.com
Cognition AI hits $1 billion run rate amid demand for coding software2026-09-25
TechCrunch
AI coding startup Cognition reportedly already in talks to raise at $40B valuation2026-08-13
Cognition Blog
Cognition has raised over $2B at a $48B valuation2026-08-09