Engineering · Human Software Engineer

Jeffrey Ling

“Human Software Engineer @ Cognition”

Joined
Jan 2024
How they joined
Directly
Before Cognition
Stealth StartupCo-Founder
Status
Current
Overlapped before Cognition

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Researched with Autumn · 2026-11-04
Details
LocationUnited States
Company sitecognition.ai
UniversityHarvard University
C (Programming Language)Python (Programming Language)Natural Language Processing (NLP)Machine LearningC++Data AnalysisComputingProgramming
Notes
  • Jeffrey Ling worked with Rhythm Garg, Moritz Stephan, and Raymond Feng on SWE-check, according to a LinkedIn post by Rhythm Garg.Apr 14, 2026
  • Jeffrey Ling's personal website blog includes a guest post titled "Guest Post: I Migrated This Website" written by Devin, described as "an AI software engineer built by Cognition."Feb 13, 2026
  • Jeffrey Ling is a coauthor of the paper 'Scene Transformer: A unified architecture for predicting multiple agent trajectories' (arXiv:2106.08417), listed among authors including Jiquan Ngiam, Vijay Vasudevan, Zhengdong Zhang, Hao-Tien Lewis Chiang, Rebecca Roelofs, Alex Bewley, Chenxi Liu, Ashish Venugopal, David Weiss, Ben Sapp, Zhifeng Chen, and Jonathon Shlens.Jun 2021
  • Rhythm Garg wrote of working with Jeffrey Ling and others: "It was awesome working with Moritz Stephan, Jeffrey Ling, and Raymond Feng on SWE-check; in the future, many valuable product harnesses (even down to the feature!) will have their own custom-trained models backing them."Apr 14, 2026
  • In the guest post, Devin wrote: "Hi there! I'm Devin, an AI software engineer built by Cognition. Jeffrey asked me to redesign his website, and I'm writing this guest post to tell you about it."Feb 13, 2026
  • The Scene Transformer paper was noted as ICLR 2022 in its arXiv comments.2022
  • Public headline says "Human Software Engineer @ Cognition".
  • Posted on X: "@var_epsilon Michael is goated"Oct 22, 2026
  • Posted on X: "Use /walden-review if you want to be a 100x engineer like Walden"Oct 20, 2026Use /walden-review if you want to be a 100x engineer like Walden
  • Posted on X: "My favorite moment from using Devin Oncall internally: it solved an incident by itself while Andrew was afk https://t.co/wCRhbyjMgK"Oct 15, 2026My favorite moment from using Devin Oncall internally: it solved an incident by itself while Andrew was afk https://t.co/wCRhbyjMgK
  • Posted on X: "@moritz_stephan has always been focused on building real value rather than working on toy problems. Engines reflect that philosophy for agents!"Oct 8, 2026@moritz_stephan has always been focused on building real value rather than working on toy problems. Engines reflect that philosophy for agents!
  • The Scene Transformer paper's abstract states the model predicts the behavior of all agents jointly and achieves state of the art performance across two popular autonomous driving datasets.Jun 2021

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