Senior Field Engineer

Role Description

Cognite operates at the forefront of industrial digitalization, building AI and data solutions that solve the world’s hardest, highest-impact problems. We thrive in challenges and execute with speed and ownership.

How you’ll demonstrate ownership:

• Client Engagement & Moving Strategy to Reality: Partner with Account Executives to prioritize strategic opportunities and act as the technical lead for complex engagements. Move clients from high-level strategy to live, functioning versions of Cognite’s solutions through Fast AI Prototyping via Cognite Atlas AI™ and Cognite Data Fusion®.
• Agentic Solution Development: Lead the design and implementation of first-of-their-kind industrial agents. Leverage the Atlas AI workbench to automate complex industrial workflows, ensuring solutions are technically feasible, scalable, and grounded in the contextualized data foundation of our Industrial Knowledge Graph.
• Technical Representation & Use Case Design: Lead use case workshops and briefings, translating functional and non-functional requirements into deliverable high-level use cases. Build executive confidence by delivering client-focused demos and reference architectures that prove the ROI of Industrial AI.
• Product Innovation & Field Leadership: Act as the critical bridge between the field and Cognite’s Product organization. Translate "field friction" and deployment learnings into actionable product requirements and scalable best practices that strengthen Cognite’s position as the leader in Industrial DataOps.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience in the Industrial Vertical such as Oil & Gas, Manufacturing, or Pharmaceuticals.
• 3+ years in forward deployed engineering/pre-sales engineering, or technical software development, ideally in enterprise SaaS, cloud platforms, or industrial software companies.
• Strong engineering background in fields such as Computer Science, Mathematics, Software Engineering, Physics, and Machine Learning.
• A strong foundation in Python and a deep understanding of the GenAI landscape (embeddings, RAG, and prompt chaining).
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills.
• Ability and interest to travel up to 50% as needed to be "on the ground" where the impact happens.

Requirements

• Education or experience in the industrial space (e.g., Petroleum, Chemical, Mechanical, or Control System Engineering).
• Previous customer-facing or sales experience.
• Experience working with "messy" real-world variables from the Industries we work in (Energy, Oil and Gas, Chemicals, Life Sciences, Discrete).
• Excitement to bridge the gap between traditional heavy industry and the future of Autonomous Operations via Cognite Data Fusion® and Agentic AI.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• 401(k) with employer matching
• Competitive health, dental, vision & disability coverages for employees and all dependents
• Unlimited PTO
• Paid Parental Leave Program
• Employee Referral Program

Company Description

Cognite is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment at work and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive the same level of consideration for employment.