# Erik Rozi

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Federal Engineering @ Cognition | CS @ Stanford | Obama-Chesky Scholar  
Cognition  
Bay Area, California, United States

## At Cognition

- Role: Federal Engineer (Engineering)
- Joined: Mar 2026
- How they joined: Directly
- Before Cognition: Software Engineer, Vannevar Labs
- Overlapped before Cognition with other Cognition people at: Vannevar Labs; Stanford University (https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/worked-together)

## Identity
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/erik-rozi
- X: @erikkrozi
- Domain: cognition.ai

## Notes
- LinkedIn hiring post for Cognition Federal, verbatim opening: "Some of the hardest, most consequential software problems in the world sit inside the U.S. government, and Cognition is building a team to go solve them. We're hiring Forward Deployed Engineers, Account Directors, and Infrastructure Engineers in DC, SF, and NYC.

What you'd be signing up for:
- Hard, early-stage problems: bringing Devin into some of the most demanding, highest-stakes environments there are.
- Reposting a Cognition "Gold Eagle Ready: closing federal vulnerabilities" post, he wrote: "I saw this pain firsthand through several conversations while at the OMB, so excited to be building this out now.". (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/erik-rozi_gold-eagle-ready-closing-federal-vulnerabilities-activity-7487941605820375043-IYvk)
- On X he welcomed two new Cognition security hires: "I know @jackhcable and @AshwinRamaswami as some of the most cracked and hardworking security experts, so excited to have them on the team!". (https://x.com/erikkrozi/status/2115873764110184492)
- Describes his own day-to-day use of Devin code scans: "I’ve been using code scans for everything from removing redundant code to improving our own internal compliance posture for federal deployments, give it a try!". (https://x.com/erikkrozi/status/2100254923258765532)
- Current role is Federal Engineer at Cognition; the profile current-job fields identify both title and company. (linkedin.com/in/erik-rozi)
- Vannevar Labs profile: "Forward Deployed Engineer at Vannevar, developing and implementing advanced AI systems that support national security and intelligence missions." Vannevar (Dec 2024 - Mar 2026) is the direct defense-tech bridge into Cognition Federal. (https://www.vannevarlabs.com/people/erik-rozi/)
- Current role is Federal Engineer at Cognition; the profile current-job fields identify both title and company. (linkedin.com/in/erik-rozi)
- Reposted Cognition's FedRAMP announcement: "Devin Cloud, the autonomous AI software engineer, is coming to the federal government. Cognition's entire platform is now FedRAMP High In-Process and listed on the FedRAMP Marketplace.

This extends FedRAMP High authorization beyond Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf) & Devin CLI to Devin Cloud, the a" — confirms the Windsurf product (now Devin Desktop) acquired by Cognition is part of the FedRAMP High federal stack he works on. (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/cognition-ai-labs_devin-cloud-the-autonomous-ai-software-engineer-activity-7482471947151384576-IPcb)
- Authored the Vannevar engineering blog post "Simulating Adversary Behavior With AI" (October 14, 2025). (https://www.vannevarlabs.com/blog/simulating-adversary-behavior-with-ai/)
- 2024 summer intern in the Office of the Federal Chief Information Officer at White House OMB, working on binding OMB guidance to agencies on AI governance and innovation; then AI Security Engineer at Microsoft (Aug-Oct 2024) on LLM security. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/erik-rozi)
- Named to the inaugural 2022-2024 Obama-Chesky Voyager Scholarship cohort; his stated focus: "domestic and global technology standards with a special focus on fair, trustworthy, and equitable technology that is human-centered and not being used against global citizens." (https://www.obama.org/programs/voyager-scholarship/2022-2024/erik-rozi/)
- Co-author of SustainBench (NeurIPS 2021 Datasets & Benchmarks) with Christopher Yeh, Patrick Liu, Jihyeon Lee, Marshall Burke, David Lobell and Stefano Ermon: Stanford SustainLab/Ermon group work on ML for sustainable development. (https://datasets-benchmarks-proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2021/file/950a4152c2b4aa3ad78bdd6b366cc179-Paper-round2.pdf)
- Reposted Shands Pickett: "🎉 Our first federal all-hands at Cognition’s new Georgetown office. Great to finally have the team together in person.". (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/m-shands-pickett_our-first-federal-all-hands-at-cognition-activity-7492909498333020160-I6Xy)
- Public headline says "Federal Engineering @ Cognition | CS @ Stanford | Obama-Chesky Scholar". (linkedin.com/in/erik-rozi)
- As a Coding it Forward Civic Digital Fellow he worked in NIH's National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute under Dr. Asif Rizwan on "Trust in AI/ML: Directions to Take in the NIH", writing an internal blog post and white paper. (https://datascience.nih.gov/meet-coding-it-forward-civic-digital-fellows)
- Public headline says "Federal Engineering @ Cognition | CS @ Stanford | Obama-Chesky Scholar". (linkedin.com/in/erik-rozi)
- Retweeted Cognition CSO Alex Stamos on attackers running powerful AI models cheaply at home while defenders pay more; Stamos is the security executive above the federal security push. (https://x.com/erikkrozi/status/2114919344107073705)
- Posted "We're just getting started 🚀🚀" on 2026-09-08, the same day Cognition announced raising over $2B at a $48B valuation. (https://x.com/erikkrozi/status/2097375817416552888)
- Shared a Hacker News compliance essay with the comment: "https://t.co/5K5Pz70One.

Interesting read about compliance making its rounds on hacker news. Compliance and security are separate, yet complimentary pursuits."; consistent with his framing of federal work as security-first, compliance-second. (https://x.com/erikkrozi/status/2084830936835969396, https://t.co/5K5Pz70One)
- Reposted Cognition joining the U.S. Department of Energy Genesis Mission (MOU), a federal AI-for-science initiative spanning all 17 national labs. (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/cognition-ai-labs_cognition-signs-mou-with-us-department-activity-7485786508415770624-WS-w)
- Federal Engineer at Cognition, building our Federal / U.S. Government business. Stanford CS. Uyghur-American, focused on making sure frontier technology serves human rights and national security rather than undermining them; this comes from the profile summary and preserves the person's own positioning. (linkedin.com/in/erik-rozi)
- Federal Engineer at Cognition, building our Federal / U.S. Government business. Stanford CS. Uyghur-American, focused on making sure frontier technology serves human rights and national security rather than undermining them; this comes from the profile summary and preserves the person's own positioning. (linkedin.com/in/erik-rozi)
- ResearchGate lists 6 research items with 503 citations, including "Understanding economic development in rural Africa using satellite imagery". (https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/Erik-Rozi-2198732053)
- Reposted Andrew Locke's Cognition federal hiring call (Technical Engagement Manager, Account Executives incl. a Navy lead), showing the federal go-to-market team he sits in. (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/andrewmlocke_cognition-jobs-activity-7463678905552510978-cHlQ)
- Previous roles include Federal Engineer at Cognition; Software Engineer at Vannevar Labs; AI Security Engineer at Microsoft; Intern at White House Office of Management and Budget at Executive Office of the President; 2022 Obama-Chesky Voyager Scholarship Recipient at Obama Foundation; Data Science Intern at Vectra AI; Product Management Fellow at The National Institutes of Health; Civic Digital Fellow at Coding it Forward; the experience history lists these employers and titles. (linkedin.com/in/erik-rozi)
- Listed among authors connected to SatHealth (KDD 2025), a multimodal public-health dataset built on satellite data, extending his Stanford satellite-ML line of work. (https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3711896.3737440)
- A figure in the NHLBI paper "The Science of Precision Prevention" (Pearson et al.) is credited as "Designed by NHLBI Summer Fellow Erik Rozi and his mentor Dr Asif Rizwan." (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10876066/)
- Previous roles include Federal Engineer at Cognition; Software Engineer at Vannevar Labs; AI Security Engineer at Microsoft; Intern at White House Office of Management and Budget at Executive Office of the President; 2022 Obama-Chesky Voyager Scholarship Recipient at Obama Foundation; Data Science Intern at Vectra AI; Product Management Fellow at The National Institutes of Health; Civic Digital Fellow at Coding it Forward; the experience history lists these employers and titles. (linkedin.com/in/erik-rozi)
- Google Scholar profile (Stanford) lists interests Machine Learning, Computational Sustainability and explainable AI. (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=cwEGts8AAAAJ&hl=en)
- ResearchGate co-author listing ties him to Stanford MLab collaborators Niveditha Iyer, Gordon Chi and Ethan Chi. (https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/Niveditha-Iyer-2198716363)
- Location is San Francisco, California, United States; the profile location field provides this geography. (linkedin.com/in/erik-rozi)
- Location is San Francisco, California, United States; the profile location field provides this geography. (linkedin.com/in/erik-rozi)

## Experience
- Federal Engineer at Cognition (Mar 2026 - Present)
- Software Engineer at Vannevar Labs (Dec 2024 - Mar 2026)
- AI Security Engineer at Microsoft (Aug 2024 - Oct 2024): Working on LLM Security.
- Intern at White House Office of Management and Budget at Executive Office of the President (Jun 2024 - Aug 2024): AI policy in the Office of the Federal Chief Information Officer. 

Implementing AI policy, including binding OMB guidance to agencies on advancing AI governance and innovation. Contributed to language for forthcoming guidance.
- 2022 Obama-Chesky Voyager Scholarship Recipient at Obama Foundation (Sep 2022 - Jun 2024): This scholarship, made possible by President Obama, Michelle Obama, and Brian Chesky, allows me to pursue global public service opportunities, experience travel, and alleviate the burden of college debt.
- Data Science Intern at Vectra AI (Jun 2023 - Aug 2023): Implementing ML models for automated network threat detection. Did some cool language stuff. Conducted research for cloud detection portfolios. Worked with large datasets using Spark and SQL.
- Product Management Fellow at The National Institutes of Health (Jun 2022 - Aug 2022): Assessing the role of Trustworthy AI at the NIH in the Division of Blood Diseases and Resources (DBDR) of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI). Created portfolio analysis system with Pandas to analyze Trustworthy AI usage at NIH, sped up process by 10x. Built out internal blog posts, white paper on the need for Trustworthy AI in healthcare and health research.
- Civic Digital Fellow at Coding it Forward (Jun 2022 - Aug 2022): The Civic Digital Fellowship allows early-career technologists to explore careers in public service. Fellows have opportunities to gain a deeper understanding of the public interest technology ecosystem.
- Research Assistant at Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL) (Mar 2021 - May 2022): Co-led Machine Learning research project on self-supervision techniques applied to low-resolution satellite image time series. Implemented state of the art machine learning models such as BYOL and Viewmaker using Pytorch. Developed pipeline to download satellite images 50x faster than previously used method within lab. Created and preprocessed full public dataset for crop type semantic segmentation. Published a few papers.

Co-led machine learning research project on controllable facial image generation with user interaction. Researched techniques such as Bayesian Optimization so users have greater controllability of models.

## Education
- Stanford University - Master of Science - MS, Computer Science - (Jan 2023 - Dec 2024)
- Stanford University - Bachelors, Computer Science - (Jan 2020 - Dec 2024)

## Sources
- https://linkedin.com/in/erik-rozi
- https://www.vannevarlabs.com/people/erik-rozi/
- https://datascience.nih.gov/meet-coding-it-forward-civic-digital-fellows
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/erik-rozi?miniProfileUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afsd_profile%3AACoAACUyvnUBP3PKYDZ4jPr01Cji0ayKaIWcbSY
- https://x.com/erikkrozi
- https://www.linkedin.com/company/cognition-ai-labs/posts
- https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/Erik-Rozi-2198732053
- https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/Niveditha-Iyer-2198716363
- https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10876066/
- https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=cwEGts8AAAAJ&hl=en
- https://www.obama.org/programs/voyager-scholarship/2022-2024/erik-rozi/
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/erik-rozi_vannevar-engineering-case-study-simulating-activity-7384265165715890177-nqe5
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewmlocke?miniProfileUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afsd_profile%3AACoAAA4ZtdsB2mTk2ocpeJcusbWRIe12vv-kk8M
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/justintherman?miniProfileUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afsd_profile%3AACoAAAC8lwwB8cDahrilIUwnBKNy3E92-CqR-ho
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- https://datasets-benchmarks-proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2021/file/950a4152c2b4aa3ad78bdd6b366cc179-Paper-round2.pdf
- https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3711896.3737440
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaRx5IRxXYY
- https://openreview.net/profile?id=~Erik_Rozi1
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/erik-rozi_some-of-the-hardest-most-consequential-software-activity-7498066547341615106-1UjR
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/erik-rozi_gold-eagle-ready-closing-federal-vulnerabilities-activity-7487941605820375043-IYvk
- https://x.com/erikkrozi/status/2115873764110184492
- https://x.com/erikkrozi/status/2100254923258765532
- linkedin.com/in/erik-rozi
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/justintherman_devin-security-20-built-for-the-new-threat-activity-7523066760640499712-ngeR
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/cognition-ai-labs_devin-cloud-the-autonomous-ai-software-engineer-activity-7482471947151384576-IPcb
- https://www.vannevarlabs.com/blog/simulating-adversary-behavior-with-ai/
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/erik-rozi
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/m-shands-pickett_our-first-federal-all-hands-at-cognition-activity-7492909498333020160-I6Xy
- https://x.com/erikkrozi/status/2114919344107073705
- https://x.com/erikkrozi/status/2097375817416552888
- https://x.com/erikkrozi/status/2084830936835969396
- https://t.co/5K5Pz70One
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/cognition-ai-labs_cognition-signs-mou-with-us-department-activity-7485786508415770624-WS-w
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/andrewmlocke_cognition-jobs-activity-7463678905552510978-cHlQ
- https://x.com/erikkrozi/status/2089752108354732230


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