What Cognite is: Relentless to achieve
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.
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About The Role
We're seeking a Software Engineer who excels at building high-performance distributed systems and thrives in a fast-paced startup environment. You'll be working on cutting-edge data infrastructure challenges that directly impact how Fortune 500 industrial companies manage their most critical operational data.
- 6–8 Years of Engineering: Proven track record building and operating production backend services at scale.
- Expertise: Deep mastery of JVM languages (Kotlin preferred, Java acceptable), Python(FastAPI), distributed systems patterns, and cloud-native service design (Kubernetes, Azure, GCP, AWS, Private cloud).
- Workflow & Orchestration: Hands-on experience with workflow engines (Conductor, Apache Airflow, or equivalent) and event-driven architectures (Kafka, Pub/Sub).
- Data & Storage: Comfortable working with relational databases (PostgreSQL) & non-relational databases, object storage(Data-lakes), and caching layers (Redis) in multi-tenant environments.
- Observability Stack: Practical experience with Open-telemetry, Prometheus, and Grafana for instrumentation and operational insight.
- ML Platform Exposure: experience supporting ML workloads & notebooks in production, whether through job scheduling, resource management, experiment tracking integration, or model serving infrastructure.
- Contextualisation Domain (Bonus): Familiarity with industrial knowledge graph construction, entity resolution, or NLP/CV pipelines as they relate to industrial asset data is a strong differentiator.
- Full-Stack Awareness (Bonus): Familiarity with React or TypeScript is a plus for consuming and dogfooding your own platform’s developer tooling.
- The Platform Thinking Spirit: A passion for building composable, well-documented, and automated platform systems that empower other engineers including ML engineers to build faster.
Good to have
ML Platform & Contextualisation:
- ML Workload Support: Build and extend platform primitives compute scheduling, environment management, and secrets handling, that enable ML engineers to run model training, fine-tuning, and batch inference jobs reliably.
- Contextualisation Pipelines: Support the engineering infrastructure behind Cognite’s Contextualisation capabilities (entity matching, asset hierarchy inference, P&ID parsing) by ensuring the platform can orchestrate long-running, GPU-aware, and data-intensive ML workflows without manual intervention.
- Vector & Embedding Infrastructure (Bonus): Familiarity with serving or storing vector embeddings to support semantic search and RAG-based contextualisation use cases.
- Model Lifecycle Awareness: Understand model versioning, A/B experiment tracking, and the boundary between platform concerns and ML framework concerns, so the platform stays lean while ML teams stay unblocked.
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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.