- Joined
- Jan 2025
- How they joined
- Directly
- Before Cognition
- Jump Trading GroupQuant Dev Intern
- Status
- Current
Overlapped before Cognition
Sources1linkedin.com
Details
LocationUnited States
LanguagesChinese, English, Hebrew, Spanish
UniversityMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Notes
- Has held a 'Special Projects' role at Cognition (maker of Devin and Windsurf) since January 2025; it was his first full-time job after MIT, and his X bio reads 'Building @cognition. prev @MITEECS @jumptrading @Tesla'.Jan 2025
- Marked Cognition's acquisition of Windsurf (formerly Codeium) with the post "Cognition 🤝 Windsurf" and retweeted Cognition's definitive-agreement announcement and Russell Kaplan's account of the deal weekend. He arrived at Windsurf through the acquisition rather than having worked there before.Jul 14, 2025Cognition 🤝 Windsurf
- Co-founded Sling Protocol (Jan 2022-Jan 2023), which built pkp-dex-sdk, an 'SDK to make swapping ERC-20 tokens easy with Lit Actions and PKPs'. Lit Protocol's newsletter says the project 'was funded by our Grants program'.Sep 2022
- Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT; he is listed in the MIT 2025 Commencement graduates name book.May 2025
- In Feb-Apr 2025, while at Cognition, he forked DeepSeek's 3FS, smallpond and DeepSeek-V3, Meta's llama-stack, and Augment's SWE-bench agent, and starred SWE-bench, opencode and markitdown.Apr 2025
- Quant Dev Intern at Jump Trading Group (Jun-Aug 2024); the specific desk or team is not stated publicly.Jun 2024
- Vehicle Firmware and Embedded Systems intern at Tesla (May-Aug 2023).May 2023
- Public headline says "Cognition".
- Replied "@windsurf 🚀🚀🚀" to Windsurf's Wave 12 launch (DeepWiki-powered docs, Vibe and Replace).Aug 14, 2025@windsurf 🚀🚀🚀
- Software Engineer at Scope Labs (Feb-Jun 2024), a studio that builds and scales software for startups and enterprises.Feb 2024
- At MIT: President of the MIT Entrepreneurship Club, Vice President of the MIT Bitcoin Club, and a member of Phi Beta Epsilon.2024
- Played defense on MIT men's varsity soccer (5 games in 2021, 11 in 2022) and was a 2x NEWMAC Academic All-Conference honoree (2022, 2024).2024
Experience
Special Projects at Cognition
Jan 2025 - Present
Quant Dev Intern at Jump Trading Group
Jun 2024 - Aug 2024
Software Engineer at Scope Labs
Feb 2024 - Jun 2024
Vehicle Firmware and Embedded Systems at Tesla
May 2023 - Aug 2023
Co-Founder at Sling Protocol
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
Software Engineer at Flytrex
Nov 2020 - Jun 2021
Tel Aviv, Israel
Software Engineer at Deepblocks
May 2020 - Oct 2020
Miami, FL
Intern at Deepblocks
Jun 2019 - May 2020
Miami-Fort Lauderdale Area
Education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bachelor's degree, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Projects
AchievementsPresident, MIT Entrepreneurship Club · Vice President, MIT Bitcoin Club
Recent posts
August 2025
@windsurf 🚀🚀🚀
July 2025
@cognition_labs 🚀🚀🚀
Cognition 🤝 Windsurf
April 2025
Excited to share what we've been working on with even more people! Devin just got a major upgrade: cheaper, faster, and smarter than ever. Try it out with Devin search, Devin wiki, or send Devin off to work on complex tasks and take over for the last 10% in the cloud IDE.
@cognition_labs 🚀🚀🚀
AwardsFACSS SciX 2019 Outstanding Spectroscopic Research for a Student Member award · 1st prize, UM Big Data Conference & VizUM Symposium poster (2019) · 2x NEWMAC Academic All-Conference (2022, 2024)
Profiles
Code
Repos10
Repos
Joseph-Gross/Joseph-Gross (None, 0 Stars): Config Files For My GitHub Profile.Joseph-Gross/key-recovery (TypeScript, 10 Stars): No DescriptionJoseph-Gross/MDI-QKD (Jupyter Notebook, 6 Stars): Measurement Device Independent Quantum Key DistributionJoseph-Gross/MIT-Indoor-Navigation (C++, 0 Stars): 6.08 Final Group Project
Languages
Jupyter NotebookTypeScriptC++Python
