Lead Architect, ATLAS AI

About Cognite

Embark on a transformative journey with Cognite, a global SaaS forerunner in leveraging AI and data to unravel complex business challenges through our cutting-edge offerings including Cognite Atlas AI, an industrial agent workbench, and the Cognite Data Fusion (CDF) platform. We were awarded the 2022 Technology Innovation Leader for Global Digital Industrial Platforms & Cognite was recognized as 2024 Microsoft Energy and Resources Partner of the Year. In the realm of industrial digital transformation, we stand at the forefront, reshaping the future of Oil & Gas, Chemicals, Pharma and other Manufacturing and Energy sectors. Join us in this venture where AI and data meet ingenuity, and together, we forge the path to a smarter, more connected industrial future.

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Impact: Cogniters strive to make an impact in all that they do. We are result-oriented, always asking ourselves.

Ownership: Cogniters embrace a culture of ownership. We go beyond our comfort zones to contribute to the greater good, fostering inclusivity and sharing responsibilities for challenges and success. 

Relentless: Cogniters are relentless in their pursuit of innovation. We are determined and deliverable (never ruthless or reckless), facing challenges head-on and viewing setbacks as opportunities for growth. 

The Office of the CTO is responsible for the architecture of Cognite Data Fusion, and ensuring it has a robust and scalable platform for solving industrial data problems for our customers. We are looking for a highly skilled and motivated software architect that can lead the technical design, development, and evolution of our Atlas AI architecture. The architecture covers all of our Atlas AI product area, including the agent builder workbench, agentic runtime, sourcing of LLMs, RAG systems and more. As a principal architect you will be responsible for the technical design of our AI services and technology choices. These designs and choices must give Cognite a long term competitive advantage by allowing us to execute on our product roadmap, while maintaining scalability, robustness and cost efficiency.

• Lead the technical design of our Atlas AI product
• Make technical decisions that give Cognite a competitive edge
• Ensure that the architecture in the Atlas AI Product Area is aligned with Cognite’s architecture principles, that it is scalable, can meet its SLOs and that cloud cost scales in a reasonable manner
• Ensuring LLM-powered services are built in a sustainable way that can be systematically iterated upon and improved
• As part of the Office of the CTO, contribute to the overall architecture and architecture principles at Cognite
• Evaluate and select technologies, frameworks, libraries and tools and drive the adoption of these in our teams
• Lead by example by working with the teams to ensure the right level of standardization (and to help out where specialization is needed)
• Work cross functionally to understand the needs of our customers, partners and delivery teams building AI agents on top of Atlas AI
• Work closely with delivery teams and other product areas to ensure our AI platform caters to their needs, for example making sure that AI agents can be used for data onboarding and contextualization
• Work closely with security and legal teams to make sure our AI products comply with security and legal requirements, for example the EU AI Act
• Mentor senior developers

• 10+ years of development experience
• Experience architecting complex systems or platforms at scale
• Experience building products on top of generative AI or machine learning models, and an understanding how this may differ from traditional software development
• Fundamental understanding of generative AI and/or machine learning, and familiarity with the tools and methodologies around them, for instance for measuring accuracy
• Full stack experience is a plus
• Experience in implementing good practices for testing and development standards across large codebases
• Understanding of how to design high performance systems that consistently deliver on SLOs
• Experience working with k8s and managed services (PaaS) on one or more of the major public clouds: AWS, Azure or GCP

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of colour are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. We are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

A snapshot of our many perks and benefits as a Cogniter

* 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 Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)

* Employee Referral Program

* Join a team of 60+ different nationalities 🌐 with Diversity, Equality and Inclusion (DEI) in focus 🤝.

* A highly modern and fun working environment with sublime culture across the organization, follow us on Instagram @cognitedata 📷 to know more

* Opportunity to work with and learn from some of the best people on some of the most ambitious projects found anywhere, across industries

* Join our HUB 🗣️ to be part of the conversation directly with Cogniters and our partners.

* Paid mobile phone and WiFI

Why choose Cognite? 🏆 🚀

* Join us in making a real and lasting impact in one of the most exciting and fastest-growing new software companies in the world. 

* We have repeatedly demonstrated that digital transformation, when anchored on strong DataOps, drives business value and sustainability for clients and allows front-line workers, as well as domain experts, to make better decisions every single day. 

* Cognite Earns 2023 Microsoft Partner of the Year Award; Recognized as a Global Leader in Energy & Resources and Industrials & Manufacturing

* Frost & Sullivan named Cognite a Technology Innovation Leader!

* Built In 2024 Best Places to Work in Austin, TX and Houston, TX

* Cognite Recognized as 2024 Microsoft Energy and Resources Partner of the Year

* Most recently Cognite Data Fusion® Achieved Industry First DNV Compliance for Digital Twins 🥇

Apply today!

If you're excited about the opportunity to work at Cognite and make a difference in the tech industry, we encourage you to apply today! We welcome candidates of all backgrounds and identities to join our team.

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Equal Opportunity

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; everyone we hire will receive the same level of consideration for training, compensation, and promotion. 

We ask for gender as part of our application because we want to ensure equal assessment in the recruitment process. Your answer will help us reach this commitment! However, the question about gender is optional and your choice not to answer will not affect the assessment of your application in any way.