NeoCognition - Member of Technical Staff [Product/Agent]
Quick facts
- Pay
- $200,000-$300,000 base + competitive equity
- Type
- Full-time
- Location
- Palo Alto, CA
- Skills
- Python, JavaScript, TypeScript
- Industry
- Information Technology — 686 open jobs
- Visa in listing
- H-1B, OPT
- Apply
- Free to apply — never pay anyone for a job offer or visa sponsorship
Job description
Source: Paraform - https://www.paraform.com/share/neocognition/cmpejadd8001g0dl8afjfy9j0 Compensation: $200,000-$300,000 base + competitive equity. Location: Palo Alto, CA - in person 5 days/week. Visa: open to transfers (OPT, H1B).
About this role As a Member of Technical Staff [Product/Agent] at NeoCognition, you'll be one of the founding engineers transforming research into real, user-facing products and developer experiences, working across the full stack (backend APIs, data infrastructure, front-end interfaces, SDKs) to make LLM agent research usable and impactful. You'll collaborate closely with research scientists, platform engineers and UX researchers.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain production-ready applications and developer tools, including web apps, APIs, SDKs, and internal libraries
- Drive the end-to-end product lifecycle, from concept and prototype to launch, iteration, and user feedback
- Translate cutting-edge research outputs into robust, usable product features and developer-facing abstractions
- Contribute to the architecture, design, and scalability of systems as usage grows
- Collaborate across research, design, and infrastructure teams to align product goals with technical feasibility
- Define and uphold engineering excellence: testing, CI/CD, documentation, and deployment best practices
- Build tools and abstractions that make it easier for internal teams and external developers to leverage the AI systems
- Agent harness and memory (product), backend serving layer (platform), ML/LM research (training, data, evals). This role sits in the agent harness/product bucket.
Tech stack Python, TypeScript/JavaScript
About NeoCognition AI agent lab for specialized intelligence: developing AI agents that continuously learn to reach expert-level intelligence. Founding team's research is used in frontier models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and others. 10 employees, founded 2025, $40M total funding, Palo Alto.
2-7 years as a product engineer building a breadth of AI applications and agents
Full-stack range: backend APIs, data infrastructure, front-end interfaces, SDKs
Python and TypeScript/JavaScript
In-person 5 days/week in Palo Alto
Visa sponsorship record
No public sponsorship records foundWe didn't find H-1B, H-1B1, E-3 or green card (PERM) filings under the name deCircle in the Department of Labor and USCIS data. That doesn't mean the job can't be sponsored — the company may file under a different legal name, be new to sponsorship, or sponsor a visa that isn't in these datasets (for example H-2B or J-1).
Tip: ask the recruiter early, in writing, which visa they sponsor and whether they cover the legal and filing fees.
Which visas can work for this job
- Mentioned in the listing
H-1B, OPT
- H-1B cap-exempt employer
Regular cap-subject employer — a new H-1B needs to win the lottery in March (unless you already hold cap-counted H-1B status).
- O-1 (extraordinary ability)
For candidates with awards, publications, press, a high salary or critical roles at distinguished organizations. No cap, no lottery; the employer files a petition.
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