Location: London (hybrid).
Type: Fixed-term, 6 months, with possibility for a full-time contract afterwards based on performance.
Eligibility: Right to work in the UK.
Start date: January 1st, 2026.
We live in a world that runs on physical industries like energy, logistics, manufacturing. These sectors are essential to our economy and daily lives, yet they are held back by inefficiencies, fragile legacy systems, and decades-old ways of working. This is not just a business problem; it is a societal one. When grids fail, supply chains stall, or factories falter, entire economies are disrupted.
These companies face unique, complex challenges that typical software was never designed to solve. Cogna was founded to change this. Our mission is to give critical industries their own AI-powered Software Factory: a way to build and deploy bespoke digital tools that solve pressing operational challenges.
Since our launch in May 2023, we’ve seen incredible customer traction and revenue growth. We’re backed by leading VCs, including Notion Capital and Hoxton Ventures, and we’re building a world-class team to take on one of the most important challenges of our time.
Tackling challenges at this scale takes people who are curious, adaptable, and motivated by impact. If our mission resonates with you, we encourage you to apply, even if your experience doesn’t match every requirement. We are committed to building a diverse team that reflects the industries and societies we serve.
The Cogna Academy is a cohort-based program for hungry, curious, hard-working builders that want to go beyond what you learned in school. The world is changing fast and LLMs open up unprecedented opportunities, but while university teaches you the theory, the Cogna Academy teaches you how to have impact and become a top-tier AI engineer.
You’ll learn faster than you’ve ever done before by shipping real complex features to production in a fast-moving high-growth startup environment, fully embedded in our world-class engineering team. Our engineers have decades of combined experience solving extremely hard technical problems in AI and software engineering and come from top teams at Palantir, Google, etc.
Apart from gaining real-world experience, you’ll also receive weekly 1:1 coaching from and pair programming directly with our co-founder, and weekly training sessions with the rest of the cohort on software engineering & AI topics.
We care less about where you studied and the theory you know, and more about what you’ve built and how fast you learn.
