Cognition
Network Engineer
San Francisco · On-site · Full-time · Posted Sep 16, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years; equivalent practical experience accepted.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, network engineering, or a related discipline—or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Own the reliability, security, automation, and evolution of Cognition’s global office networks and deliver connectivity across offices and cloud infrastructure.
What you'll do
- Design, deploy, and operate wired and wireless office networks, including routing, RF optimization, and resilient connectivity.
- Manage office network delivery and create repeatable architectures, standards, documentation, and deployment practices.
- Build network observability and automation, secure access, and troubleshoot incidents in partnership with internal teams and vendors.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of hands-on enterprise or campus network experience, or equivalent practical experience; experience operating networks in a hypergrowth startup.
- Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline or equivalent practical experience.
- Demonstrated expertise in wireless RF engineering, enterprise switching and routing, and delivery of branch or large-office networks.
- Experience with network monitoring and reliability, automation and configuration delivery, network security and identity controls, and vendor coordination.
Nice to have
- High-density wireless, cloud networking, advanced routing or hybrid-cloud connectivity, or network telemetry and analytics.
- Automation with NetBox, Ansible, or Terraform; AI/AIOps experience; or CCNP Enterprise, CWNP, or equivalent technical depth.
Tools
VLANs, LACP, OSPF, BGP, VRFs, QoS, Python, Go
AI focus
Use Devin and AI to improve network reliability, troubleshooting, and automation; applying AI or AIOps to reliability, capacity planning, or incident response is a bonus.
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