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Jack Meigel

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Joined: Jan 2025
How they joined: Directly
Before Cognition: Palantir TechnologiesForward Deployed Engineer
Status: Current

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LocationNew York, New York, United States

Company sitecognition.ai

LanguagesChinese, English

UniversityThe Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

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Joined Cognition (Devin) in New York after leaving Palantir; his announcement reads: "After an incredible tenure at Palantir, I'm continuing to do the two things I care about most: engineering and finding exceptional people to build with."Feb 16, 2026Excited to share I've joined the team at Cognition. After an incredible tenure at Palantir, I'm continuing to do the two things I care about most: engineering and finding exceptional people to build with. We're building the future of software engineering. Come see for yourself. cognition.ai/careers
Cognition's own team spotlight (by GTM Ops lead Salima Ghadimi) describes him as "a Deployed Engineer who helps tens of thousands of developers at major financial institutions and still spends half his time interviewing candidates". Morgan banking stint.
Palantir alumni directory lists him under Cognition and says that in October 2026 he was hiring FDEs and other engineers for Cognition across regions, with a focus on the US, APAC and Latin America.Oct 2026
Posted that "Scott Wu is Cognition" and that the company is "not building a better coding tool. We're rethinking what software engineering looks like entirely", closing with "my inbox is open".May 11, 2026Scott Wu is Cognition. This piece captures his leadership philosophy and long-term conviction better than I ever could, but it still undersells the day-to-day reality of working alongside him. We're not building a better coding tool. We're rethinking what software engineering looks like entirely, and doing it alongside some of the sharpest minds of our time. If that is a problem that excites you, my inbox is open.
Current role is — at Cognition.
Was a Forward Deployed Engineer at Palantir Technologies from about August 2024 to November 2025.Aug 2024
Co-founded a stealth fitness-data startup (2022-2023, "elite athletics + big data") as Co-Founder and Head of Product. It combined data from over 60 sources for elite athletes using ML and an LLM chat feature, and shut down after it lost access to data streams amid competition from Whoop's similar offering.2022
GitHub repo Devin-Feature-Flag-Project (TypeScript, created Oct 2025) has the description "lets see what devin can cook up!". It is a hands-on Devin experiment from about the time he moved to Cognition.Oct 15, 2025
Public GitHub (jackmeigel) has 4 repos, including llm-jit-compiler (June 2025, Python): a 'Natural Language to Domain-Specific Code Compiler' that turns natural language into SQL, Terraform, Kubernetes and Regex. He built it during his Palantir FDE period, just before he moved to an AI coding company.Jun 11, 2025
While at Palantir he posted "My team at Palantir is hiring. No bureaucracy. No barriers to ownership. Zero distance from the problem.", recruiting FDEs and Deployment Strategists. He was recruiting at Palantir too, so the recruiting focus he brought to Cognition was already there.May 23, 2025My team at Palantir is hiring. No bureaucracy. No barriers to ownership. Zero distance from the problem. We're looking for the next batch of elite FDE's and Deployment Strategists as we continue to redefine entire industries and shape the ones to come. My DM's are open to anyone interested in answering that call.
Worked in banking at J.P. Morgan in 2023, a role his profile calls a "change of direction" before he moved into forward-deployed engineering.2023
Public headline says "Cognition".

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