Senior Field Engineer (Pre-Sales/Forward Deployed)

Cognite
Houston
Workplace: HybridFull timeFunction: Solutions Engineering & Sales EngineeringExperience: 3+ yearsSkills: ["Problem-solving","Analytical thinking","Communication","Technical evangelism","Strategic influence"]

Partner with Account Executives as a technical lead to turn strategic enterprise opportunities into working Cognite solution prototypes. Lead agentic industrial solution design using the Atlas AI workbench and Cognite Data Fusion, translating functional and non-functional requirements into high-level use cases and reference architectures. Bridge field deployment learnings into actionable product requirements, deliver technical demos, and evangelize Industrial DataOps across IT/OT/ET data environments.

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Cognite
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Senior Field Engineer (Pre-Sales/Forward Deployed)

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Job Summary

Partner with Account Executives as a technical lead to turn strategic enterprise opportunities into working Cognite solution prototypes. Lead agentic industrial solution design using the Atlas AI workbench and Cognite Data Fusion, translating functional and non-functional requirements into high-level use cases and reference architectures. Bridge field deployment learnings into actionable product requirements, deliver technical demos, and evangelize Industrial DataOps across IT/OT/ET data environments.
Location: Houston
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Solutions Engineering & Sales Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Partner with Account Executives as technical lead for complex, strategic engagements and move clients from strategy to live solution prototypes.
  • •Design and implement first-of-the-kind industrial agents, ensuring technical feasibility, scalability, and grounding in contextualized Industrial Knowledge Graph data.
  • •Lead use case workshops and briefings, translating functional and non-functional requirements into deliverable high-level use cases with client-focused demos and reference architectures.
  • •Unify IT/OT/ET data into scalable architectures using Cognite Data Fusion to create a single source of truth.
  • •Bridge field friction and deployment learnings into actionable product requirements and scalable best practices for Industrial DataOps.
Travel: High travel

Pay and Benefits

Perks:401kHealth InsuranceDentalVisionDisabilityPaid Leave

Key Requirements

  • •3+ years in forward deployed engineering or pre-sales engineering roles in enterprise SaaS, cloud platforms, or industrial software.
  • •Strong engineering background in areas such as Computer Science, Mathematics, Software Engineering, Physics, or Machine Learning.
  • •Strong foundation in Python and the GenAI landscape, including embeddings, RAG, and prompt chaining.
  • •Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills.
  • •Ability and interest to travel up to 50% to be on the ground where impact happens.
Experience:3+ yearsEnterprise SaaSCloud platformsIndustrial softwareGenAILLMIndustrial AI
Education:
Skills:Problem-solvingAnalytical thinkingCommunicationTechnical evangelismStrategic influence
Languages:English
Tech Stack:PythonLLMsGeminiClaudeGPT-4EmbeddingsRAGPrompt chainingCognite Atlas AIAtlas AI workbenchCognite Data FusionCDF data modelsIndustrial Knowledge GraphGenAIFast AI PrototypingOpen-source AI frameworks

Company Brief

Cognite
Provides industrial data software that helps companies connect, contextualize, and use operational data for analytics, AI, and digital transformation. Its platform is used by heavy-industry customers to improve asset performance and operations.
Industry: Data Infrastructure
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Headquarters: Oslo, Norway
Founded: 2016
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