# Joseph Gross

![Joseph Gross](/resources/cognition/portraits/joseph-gross.webp)

Special Projects at Cognition (Devin, Windsurf) | MIT EECS '25 | ex-Jump Trading, Tesla; Sling Protocol co-founder  
Cognition  
United States

## At Cognition

- Role: Special Projects (Research)
- Joined: Jan 2025
- How they joined: Directly
- Before Cognition: Quant Dev Intern, Jump Trading Group
- Overlapped before Cognition with other Cognition people at: Jump Trading (https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/worked-together)

## Identity
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/josgross
- X: @JosephGross157
- GitHub: https://github.com/Joseph-Gross

## 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'. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/josgross)
- 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. (https://x.com/JosephGross157/status/1944820885254222154)
- 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'. (https://github.com/Sling-Protocol/pkp-dex-sdk)
- Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT; he is listed in the MIT 2025 Commencement graduates name book. (https://commencement.mit.edu/sites/default/files/2025-05/MIT.Commencement.2025.Graduates.Name.Book.pdf)
- 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. (https://github.com/Joseph-Gross)
- Quant Dev Intern at Jump Trading Group (Jun-Aug 2024); the specific desk or team is not stated publicly. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/josgross)
- Vehicle Firmware and Embedded Systems intern at Tesla (May-Aug 2023). (https://www.linkedin.com/in/josgross)
- Public headline says "Cognition". (https://www.linkedin.com/in/josgross)
- Replied "@windsurf 🚀🚀🚀" to Windsurf's Wave 12 launch (DeepWiki-powered docs, Vibe and Replace). (https://x.com/JosephGross157/status/1956076644118254064)
- Software Engineer at Scope Labs (Feb-Jun 2024), a studio that builds and scales software for startups and enterprises. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/josgross)
- At MIT: President of the MIT Entrepreneurship Club, Vice President of the MIT Bitcoin Club, and a member of Phi Beta Epsilon. (https://mitathletics.com/sports/mens-soccer/roster/joseph--gross/12686)
- 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). (https://mitathletics.com/sports/mens-soccer/roster/joseph--gross/12686)
- Named as 'JOSEPH GROSS '25' (Computer Science; Economics) in the MIT Martin Trust Center 2023 Annual Report, in a passage about the Trust Center's Student Board. (https://www.calameo.com/mit-martin-trust-center/books/00505672089465272a27c)
- The most recent commit on Sling-Protocol/pkp-dex-sdk (Sep 12, 2022) is by GitHub user richtermb. (https://github.com/Sling-Protocol/pkp-dex-sdk)
- Previous roles include Quant Dev Intern at Jump Trading Group; Software Engineer at Scope Labs; Vehicle Firmware and Embedded Systems at Tesla; Co-Founder at Sling Protocol; Software Engineer at Flytrex; Software Engineer at Deepblocks; Intern at Deepblocks. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/josgross)
- Co-built WorstCase on Devpost with Grant Wise, Nathan Hilton and Lindsey Dobrie: an Android, AWS and DynamoDB app that helps disaster victims find aid. (https://devpost.com/software/worstcase)
- Accounts he follows on X include Windsurf co-founder Varun Mohan, Russell Kaplan, Steven Hao, competitive programmer Gennady Korotkevich, Johnny Ho, Founders Fund and Keith Rabois. Following someone is a network lead, not proof of a relationship. (https://x.com/JosephGross157)
- Location is United States. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/josgross)

## 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 - Tel Aviv, Israel (Nov 2020 - Jun 2021)
- Software Engineer at Deepblocks - Miami, FL (May 2020 - Oct 2020)
- Intern at Deepblocks - Miami-Fort Lauderdale Area (Jun 2019 - May 2020)

## Education
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Bachelor's degree, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

## Sources
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/josgross
- https://x.com/JosephGross157
- https://devpost.com/software/worstcase
- https://mitathletics.com/sports/mens-soccer/roster/joseph--gross/12686
- https://github.com/Joseph-Gross
- https://x.com/alexstamos
- https://litproject.substack.com/p/lit-protocol-starter-guide-64f
- https://github.com/Sling-Protocol/pkp-dex-sdk
- https://x.com/JosephGross157/status/1944820885254222154
- https://x.com/JosephGross157/status/1907851585604010246
- https://commencement.mit.edu/sites/default/files/2025-05/MIT.Commencement.2025.Graduates.Name.Book.pdf
- https://x.com/JosephGross157/status/1956076644118254064
- https://www.calameo.com/mit-martin-trust-center/books/00505672089465272a27c


Researched with Autumn (https://www.autumn.ai) from public sources. Updated 2026-11-04. Profile: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/joseph-gross · Everyone at Cognition: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people