Engineering · Member of Technical Staff

Max Lohmann

“Interaction | Ex Jane Street, Apple, Amazon & Bloomberg Intern”

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Joined Cognition: Jul 2026
How they joined: With Poke
Before Poke: QuantCoSoftware Engineer
Status: Current

Overlapped before Cognition

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LocationHamburg, Germany

Company sitecognition.com

UniversityHamburg University of Technology

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Cognition announced it was acquiring The Interaction Company of California, maker of the texting AI agent Poke, on 2026-07-23; Lohmann was a Member of Technical Staff at Interaction.Jul 23, 2026
Verbatim reply to Cognition's announcement that it had raised over $2B at a $48B valuation: "@cognition lfg 🚀🚀". This is his first public post addressed to Cognition as an employee.Sep 8, 2026@cognition lfg 🚀🚀
TechCrunch reported the Poke deal valued the startup in the 'low nine figures' (confirmed by co-founder Marvin von Hagen); Cognition co-founders Scott Wu and Walden Yan had been angel investors in Interaction, and the stated rationale was bringing Poke's interaction model and personality to Devin.Jul 24, 2026
Verbatim X post on the day after the acquisition announcement: "what a run. so grateful to the entire team 🫶🌴".Jul 24, 2026what a run. so grateful to the entire team 🫶🌴 https://t.co/DFPQriDZSf
Current role is Member of Technical Staff at The Interaction Company of California.
He praised Pierre Computer's Code Storage, which Poke used to store user automations: "honestly can't remember the last time a tool was this effortless. @pierrecomputer just works, much love 🌴🙏". Pierre separately said Poke uses Code Storage for more than just code.Aug 18, 2026honestly can't remember the last time a tool was this effortless. @pierrecomputer just works, much love 🌴🙏
Verbatim X post the same day: "the real interaction is the friends we made along the way", a pun on the company name.Jul 24, 2026the real interaction is the friends we made along the way
He interned as a Software Engineer at Jane Street from 2024-07 to 2024-09 and received a return offer; he chose Interaction instead. Interaction's founding team markets itself as Jane Street engineers.Jul 2024
Co-authored 'Dynamic Size Counting in the Population Protocol Model: Counting (on) agents to drive a phase clock' with Dominik Kaaser (ACM PODC '24, Nantes, June 2024); the arXiv version lists Lohmann at TUHH.Jun 2024
He replied to Pierre/@fat about corrupt-automation rollbacks ("imagine pushing a bad update that corrupts users automations and the fix is just git resetting head").Aug 2026
He reposted co-founder Marvin von Hagen's recruiting line: "we're a dense team of 10 jane street engineers, ioi medalists, and sunshine enjoyers down in palo alto." This describes the team he worked on, not his own olympiad record.Apr 6, 2026
He worked on Poke product surfaces in public, for example: "wanted poke to send me bugs proactively 🥰" (an internal proactive bug-report flow), and he answered user support questions about iMessage and SMS/WhatsApp access.Oct 16, 2025wanted poke to send me bugs proactively 🥰 https://t.co/ALX5Mk7GhT

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