Cognite - AI for Industry

Principal Solution Architect, AI Co-innovation

USA (Houston); USA (Phoenix) · Principal

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 6 days ago

Full-Stack DevelopmentVector DatabasesAWSGCPAzureLLMsRAGAgentic AIProduct ManagementProduct StrategyControlsLeadershipMentoring

About the role

As an Enterprise Solution Architect, you will be a high-leverage technical leader responsible for the architectural integrity and strategic success of our AI deployments.
This role sits at the center of our scaling strategy.
You will act as the bridge between product engineering, domain experts, and delivery teams, translating high-level business problems into robust, scalable technical architectures.

Own Architectural Excellence: Set and maintain the standards for data model quality and system architecture across strategic accounts to ensure reliable, production-grade AI solutions.
Architect Complex Data Models: Design and implement sophisticated industrial data models within Cognite Data Fusion (CDF), providing the necessary "ground truth" for LLMs and agentic workflows.
Design agent workflows: Architect multi-agent systems that combine LLMs, tool use, evaluation loops, and reasoning over industrial data.
Scale Repeatable Patterns: Identify and document architectural patterns that reduce delivery friction and enable the team to move from bespoke prototypes to repeatable, enterprise-scale impact.
Shape the product: Feed learnings and customer feedback into the product roadmap systematically - ensuring we build the most compelling industrial AI platform in the market.
Cognite operates at the forefront of industrial digitalization, building AI, and data solutions that solve the world's hardest, highest-impact problems.
With unmatched industrial heritage and a comprehensive suite of AI capabilities, including low-code AI agents, Cognite accelerates the digital transformation to drive operational improvements.

Senior Engineering Background: 10+ years of experience in software engineering or solution architecture, with a "builder" mindset and the ability to dive into the code when necessary.
Ideally, you have also worked with AI solution architecture, or similar roles - including direct customer-facing work
Hands-on experience with LLMs, embeddings, prompt engineering, and related techniques.
Solution Leadership: You have a proven track record of designing and shipping enterprise-scale software architectures, preferably in an AI or data-heavy context.
You work at the frontier.

Understanding of industrial data types (time series, knowledge graphs)
Experience with Cognite Data Fusion
Familiarity with vector databases and RAG architectures
Cloud-native development experience (AWS, Azure, GCP)
Exposure to industrial domains - manufacturing, energy, process industries
Experience with industrial control systems
Deep fluency with agentic coding tools and an understanding of what they mean for the future of software engineering - and industrial workflows
Competitive compensation

The AI Co-Innovation team operates at the intersection of Cognite's emerging product capabilities and our most forward-leaning customers.
We work closely with product teams to operationalize new AI capabilities-hardening, scaling, and integrating them into production environments where they deliver real-world impact.
We drive transformational customer engagements, product improvements, and measurable outcomes.
We take ideas from prototype to production, ensuring they're reliable, scalable, and ready for repeatable delivery.
Speed is central to how we work.
The team combines full-stack engineers, deployed AI engineers, and technical program managers working toward shared objectives.
We challenge assumptions.
Execute directly with customers: Collaborate with technical teams on-site to refine use cases and integrate solutions into production environments.

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.

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