Commercial Counsel - US

Cognition

New York City, NY, United States permanent

Posted: March 31, 2026

Quick Summary

We're looking for a talented software engineer to join our team in New York City, NY. The ideal candidate will be responsible for developing and implementing AI software agents, which will be a key part of our Applied AI Lab. Key skills include proficiency in programming languages like Python and experience with AI frameworks.

Job Description

We are an applied AI lab building end-to-end software agents.

We're the makers of Devin, the first AI software engineer, and Windsurf, the AI-native IDE. Together, they represent our vision for collaborative AI teammates that enable engineers to focus on more interesting problems and empower teams to strive for more ambitious goals.

Our team is small and talent-dense. Among our founding team, we have world-class competitive programmers, former founders, and leaders from companies at the cutting edge of AI including Scale AI, Palantir, Cursor, Waymo, Tesla, Lunchclub, Modal, Google DeepMind, and Nuro.

Building Devin and Windsurf is just the first step—our hardest challenges still lie ahead. If you’re excited to solve some of the world’s biggest problems and build AI that can reason on real-world tasks, apply to join us.

About the Role

As Commercial Counsel for US, you will sit at the centre of a fast-moving commercial legal function, managing a high-volume workflow of complex negotiations across AI SaaS licensing, marketing, and partnership agreements. You will work with enterprise-level deals, balancing risk and reward with pragmatism and speed, and ensuring closures that are both fair and commercially sound.

This role carries real weight. You will serve as the connective tissue between the GTM team and technical and operational teams, translating contractual commitments into guidance that non-legal stakeholders can act on.

Beyond day-to-day deal work, you will play a meaningful part in the company's growth, working cross-functionally to establish and grow contract compliance mechanisms. If you want a legal role with genuine strategic scope, this is it.

In this role you will:

• Focus on Enterprise (US) deals and contract work

• Manage a high-volume workflow, redlining and negotiating key legal documents, including Licensing, SaaS agreements, and NDAs

• Provide crucial legal guidance, balancing risk/reward, with an understanding of national and international requirements and parlaying that to the technical and operational team

• Engage with enterprise-level counsel, ensuring swift and fair deal closures

Ideally you have:

• 7+ years experience drafting and negotiating commercial contracts

• Experience with high-velocity, high-growth tech company preferred

• Diverse body of work, including inbound and outbound contracts

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