Cognition

Partner Deployed Engineer - APAC

Tokyo. Posted 9 months ago

The role

Partner Deployed Engineers enable services partners like Global Systems Integrators to deploy and scale Devin and Windsurf. You will work with partner engineering and architecture teams to build repeatable offerings and technical expertise.

What you will do

  • Own the technical success of GSI partners across onboarding, enablement, and scaled delivery
  • Work with partner engineering and architecture teams to understand delivery models and use cases
  • Enable partners to build repeatable solutions, accelerators, and reference architectures
  • Lead technical trainings, workshops, and deep dives for partner teams
  • Support partner-led customer pilots and early production deployments
  • Act as a technical escalation point for complex integrations, security reviews, and enterprise workflows
  • Build trust-based relationships with partner technical leaders
  • Capture field learnings and partner feedback to influence product roadmap
  • Identify gaps in partner capability and work with internal teams to close them

Required qualifications

  • Degree in STEM field and a strong engineering foundation from a rigorous technical environment
  • Demonstrated track record of exceptional performance in academic, professional, or entrepreneurial pursuits
  • Strong communication skills to engage senior partner leaders, architects, and executives
  • High tolerance for ambiguity, intensity, and sustained effort when required
  • Willingness to travel 25–50%, including frequent travel to India and partner/customer sites

Nice to have

  • Experience working with or alongside large engineering teams
  • Advanced in at least one modern programming language (e.g., Python, TypeScript)
  • Experience writing, debugging, and deploying real production systems
  • Worked with SI / GSI delivery models, enterprise software deployments, or large-scale developer platforms
  • Enjoy enabling others to be successful
  • Learn quickly by embedding in complex, real-world environments
  • Operated beyond formal job description in high-growth or early-stage settings or previously founded a startup
  • Thrive in roles that require context switching quickly

About the company

Cognition is an applied AI lab building end-to-end software agents and the makers of Devin, the first AI software engineer.