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Principal Solution Architect, AI Co-innovation

Cognite · USA (Houston); USA (Phoenix) · On-site

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About Cognite

Deliver a step-change in productivity, safety, and performance with unified, trustworthy industrial data for every use case. Backed by Accel.

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. You will own the data model quality and architectural standards for Cognite AI Agents and Custom Front-end Applications, ensuring that complex industrial data is structured and contextualized to power world-class agentic systems.

What they're looking for

  • You've built with AI systems. 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 communicate clearly. Strong storytelling skills for both technical and executive audiences
  • You write quality code. Clean, maintainable, and scalable - with solid practices around testing, version control, and code review
  • You work at the frontier. Familiarity with modern AI development workflows, rapid iteration, and agentic engineering tools as part of your daily workflow
More about this role

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.

We thrive in challenges. We challenge assumptions. We execute with speed and ownership. If you view obstacles as signals to step forward - not backwards - you’ll feel right at home here.

Our Moonshot is bold: Unlock $100B in customer value by 2035, and redefine how global industry works. Join us in this venture where AI and data meet ingenuity, and together, we will forge the path to a smarter, more connected industrial future.

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...

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