- Joined
- Jan 2026
- How they joined
- Directly
- Before Cognition
- SpaceXSoftware
- Status
- Current
- GitHub README (verbatim): "I'm currently an engineer at Cognition, building our new public sector business. I work on Devin, infrastructure, FDE, and occasionally post-training. In particular, I lead segments of our product and harness work."2026
- LinkedIn describes his Cognition role (2026-present) as "Product, infra, research, and FDE for new public sector business".2026
- At SpaceX (2025-2026) he designed Starlink's enterprise and government interfaces and was "part of the original team that launched Starlink for Aviation" ("If you've flown recently (on certain airlines), you've probably used some of my code!"). The government-interface work is a direct bridge to his public sector role at Cognition.2025
- X post (verbatim): "life as a 0.5x engineer at Cognition has been good this week"Jul 23, 2026life as a 0.5x engineer at Cognition has been good this week https://t.co/QLkaaIYyxy
- Cosign profile: "builds Devin at Cognition, working on model performance and the company's public sector business. He previously built Starlink software at SpaceX and researched AI alignment and computer vision at Princeton."2026
- Princeton research (2025-2026): LLMs in government / AI alignment in multi-agent and public sector applications, advised by Prof. Arvind Narayanan and funded by Anthropic.2025
- At SpaceX (2024-2025) he "wrote Starlink's wifi telemetry system", which LinkedIn says is "now on millions of kits and used company-wide".2024
- X post (verbatim): "launching soon: how we improved airflow at the Cognition NYC office" - places him at Cognition's New York office.Jul 24, 2026launching soon: how we improved airflow at the Cognition NYC office https://t.co/jwCKAoYotz
- Army ROTC at Princeton (2022-2026): Distinguished Military Graduate, led the region as battalion commander, graduated Air Assault School.2026
- Princeton research (2025): built a computer vision system for 2D quantum materials discovery, advised by Prof. Olga Russakovsky.2025
- Public headline says "Engineering @ Cognition | prev. SpaceX".
- Hi! Outside of work, I love lifting, hiking, and cooking. My best lift total is 1005 lbs, I most recently summited Mt. Elbert, and I helped run a pop-up restaurant on campus. I also really like my violin and air fryer.
https://github.com/briannzhou; this comes from the profile summary and preserves the person's own positioning.
Product, infra, research, and FDE for new public sector business.
Designed Starlink’s enterprise/government interface, and part of founding Aviation team.
Built Starlink's wifi telemetry system, now on millions of kits and used company-wide.
LLMs in government, advised by Prof. Arvind Narayanan, funded by Anthropic.
Distinguished Military Graduate, led region as battalion commander, graduated Air Assault.
Minors: Math, Statistics & Machine Learning Activities (List): - Cap & Gown (Tech Chair) - Princeton Pop Up (Student-run fine dining restaurant) - The Daily Princetonian (Business Team) - TigerLaunch (Executive Board) - EX
launching soon: how we improved airflow at the Cognition NYC office https://t.co/jwCKAoYotz
life as a 0.5x engineer at Cognition has been good this week https://t.co/QLkaaIYyxy
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