- Joined
- Jul 2026
- How they joined
- Directly
- Before Cognition
- Emerald InnovationsSoftware and Data Science Intern
- Status
- Current
Overlapped before Cognition
Sources1linkedin.com
Details
LocationAustin, Texas, United States
Company sitecognition.ai
UniversityMassachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University
Competitive programmingQuantum circuit compilation (Qiskit)FPGA / HLS machine learningParticle physics MLPython
Notes
- Joined Cognition (maker of Devin and, since the July 2025 acquisition, Windsurf) as a Member of Technical Staff in July 2026, listed in San Francisco; because he started a year after the Windsurf deal, he arrived as a direct hire rather than through the acquired Codeium/Windsurf team.Jul 2026
- Co-authored 'Differentiable Vertex Fitting for Jet Flavour Tagging' (arXiv:2310.12804, Oct 2023) with Rachel E. C. Smith, Ines Ochoa, Ruben Inacio and Michael Kagan, affiliated with SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.Oct 2023
- Codeforces handle shoemakerjo reached Grandmaster with a max rating of 2447, representing USACO from Austin; he registered in June 2016 and was last online in December 2022.Dec 2022
- Contributed to fastmachinelearning/hls4ml (ML on FPGAs) with PR #635 on Aug 10, 2022, fixing conv1d io_stream HLS directives: a loop given the unroll directive 'should have been pipelined'; it shipped in the hls4ml 'delphinium' release.Aug 10, 2022
- Tied for 1st with a perfect score in the USACO January 2019 Platinum division, sharing first place with Eric Zhang.Jan 2019
- AlphaStar Academy's instructor bio lists him as a USACO Finalist (2017, 2018), USAJMO qualifier (2016, 2017), AIME qualifier (2014-2018), Google Code Jam Round 3 qualifier (2018), HP CodeWars 1st (2017) and 2nd (2018), and UCF Online Programming Contest 1st (2017), and he taught at AlphaStar's CS summer camp.
- Public headline says "CS & Physics".
- The same SLAC/LIP Lisbon collaboration (Smith, Ochoa, Inacio, Shoemaker, Kagan) also produced a differentiable approach to muon tracking at the LHC published in Phys. Rev. D, with Shoemaker listed under SLAC.
- Earned a Bachelor's in Physics and Computer Science at MIT (2019-2023).2023
- Was a Software and Data Science Intern at Emerald Innovations in Cambridge, MA (Jun-Aug 2021).Jun 2021
- Previous roles include Software and Data Science Intern at Emerald Innovations; Quantum Computing Developer at IBM.
- Education history includes Bachelor's degree, Physics and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics, Stanford University.
Experience
Member of Technical Staff at Cognition
Jul 2026 - Present
San Francisco, CA
Software and Data Science Intern at Emerald Innovations
Jun 2021 - Aug 2021
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Quantum Computing Developer at IBM
Jun 2020 - Aug 2020
Yorktown Heights, New York, United States
Worked on IBM Quantum’s cloud-based quantum computing tool, Qiskit. Developed Algorithms for compiling and synthesizing Quantum Circuits
Education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jan 2019 - Jan 2023
Bachelor's degree, Physics and Computer Science
Stanford University
Sep 2023
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics
Stanford Graduate Fellow
Projects
AchievementsCodeforces Grandmaster (max rating 2447) · USACO Finalist 2017, 2018, 2019; USACO 2019 summer training camp · USACO Jan 2019 Platinum: tied 1st with a perfect score · USAJMO qualifier 2016, 2017 · Google Code Jam Round 3 qualifier 2018 · HP CodeWars 1st 2017, 2nd 2018 · Stanford Graduate Fellow
AwardsStanford Graduate Fellowship · USACO Finalist (2017, 2018, 2019)
Profiles
Code
Repos7
Repos
Jonathan-Shoemaker/deep_clean_fpgaJonathan-Shoemaker/hls4ml (fork)Jonathan-Shoemaker/qiskit-terra (fork)
Languages
Python
