Senior Field Engineer (Pre-Sales/Forward Deployed)
Cognite - AI for Industry7 hours ago
Responsibilities
- Partner with Account Executives as the technical lead for strategic and complex customer opportunities.
- Design and implement industrial AI agents using the Atlas AI workbench and Industrial Knowledge Graph.
- Build end-to-end prototypes integrating GenAI components, CDF data models, and legacy customer systems.
- Lead use-case workshops, technical briefings, client demos, and reference-architecture discussions.
- Translate field deployment learnings into product requirements and scalable best practices.
- Travel up to 50% to support customer engagements.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience in forward-deployed engineering or pre-sales engineering roles.
- Strong engineering background; preferred fields include Computer Science, Mathematics, Software Engineering, Physics, and Machine Learning.
- Strong foundation in Python and deep understanding of embeddings, retrieval-augmented generation, prompt chaining, and the GenAI landscape.
- Ability to design scalable architectures and build full-stack technical prototypes.
- Excellent problem-solving, analytical, communication, and technical evangelism skills.
- Preferred experience includes industrial-sector work, customer-facing or sales experience, and working with complex real-world industrial data.
- Experience with enterprise SaaS, cloud platforms, industrial software, or open-source AI frameworks is preferred.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation.
- 401(k) with employer matching.
- Health, dental, vision, and disability coverage for employees and dependents.
- Unlimited PTO.
- Paid parental leave program.
- Employee referral program.
- International work environment with offices and presence across Phoenix, Houston, Oslo, Tokyo, Bengaluru, and Abu Dhabi.
- Travel may be required up to 50%.
Tech Stack
Categories
Forward DeployedSolutions Engineering
About Cognite - AI for Industry
Cognite builds an industrial data and AI platform used by energy, manufacturing, and power & utilities companies to integrate OT/IT data and deploy AI at scale. Its flagship product, Cognite Data Fusion, is sold as enterprise SaaS with services for implementation and Industrial AI agents. Founded in 2016 and privately held, the company focuses on asset-intensive operations and Industrial DataOps.