# Principal Solution Architect, AI Co-innovation at Cognite

- Company: Cognite
- What the company does: Deliver a step-change in productivity, safety, and performance with unified, trustworthy industrial data for every use case. Backed by Accel.
- Company website: https://www.cognite.com/en/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: USA (Houston); USA (Phoenix)
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-07-16
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/cognite/jobs/4881034101
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/cognite-principal-solution-architect-ai-co-innovation/

## 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

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