Lead Architect, Atlas AI

Company: Cognite - AI for Industry
Location: Phoenix
Posted on: February 18, 2026

Job Description:

Job Description Job Description Cognite operates at the forefront of industrial digitalization, building AI and data solutions that solve some of 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. Our moonshot is bold: unlock $100B in customer value by 2035 and redefine how global industry works. What Cognite is Relentless to achieve We thrive in challenges. We challenge assumptions. We execute with speed and ownership. If you view obstacles as signals to step forward - not step back - you'll feel at home here. Join us in this venture where AI and data meet ingenuity, and together, we forge the path to a smarter, more connected industrial future. How you'll demonstrate Ownership The Office of the CTO is responsible for the architecture of Cognite Data Fusion, and ensuring it has a robust and scalable platform for solving industrial data problems for our customers. We are looking for a highly skilled and motivated software architect that can lead the technical design, development, and evolution of our Atlas AI architecture. The architecture covers all of our Atlas AI product area, including the agent builder workbench, agentic runtime, sourcing of LLMs, RAG systems and more. As a principal architect you will be responsible for the technical design of our AI services and technology choices. These designs and choices must give Cognite a long term competitive advantage by allowing us to execute on our product roadmap, while maintaining scalability, robustness and cost efficiency. The Impact you bring to Cognite Lead the technical design of our Atlas AI product Make technical decisions that give Cognite a competitive edge Ensure that the architecture in the Atlas AI Product Area is aligned with Cognite's architecture principles, that it is scalable, can meet its SLOs and that cloud cost scales in a reasonable manner Ensuring LLM-powered services are built in a sustainable way that can be systematically iterated upon and improved As part of the Office of the CTO, contribute to the overall architecture and architecture principles at Cognite Evaluate and select technologies, frameworks, libraries and tools and drive the adoption of these in our teams Lead by example by working with the teams to ensure the right level of standardization (and to help out where specialization is needed) Work cross functionally to understand the needs of our customers, partners and delivery teams building AI agents on top of Atlas AI Work closely with delivery teams and other product areas to ensure our AI platform caters to their needs, for example making sure that AI agents can be used for data onboarding and contextualization Work closely with security and legal teams to make sure our AI products comply with security and legal requirements, for example the EU AI Act Mentor senior developers Required Qualifications 10 years of development experience Experience architecting complex systems or platforms at scale Experience building products on top of generative AI or machine learning models, and an understanding how this may differ from traditional software development Fundamental understanding of generative AI and/or machine learning, and familiarity with the tools and methodologies around them, for instance for measuring accuracy Experience in implementing good practices for testing and development standards across large codebases Understanding of how to design high performance systems that consistently deliver on SLOs Experience working with k8s and managed services (PaaS) on one or more of the major public clouds: AWS, Azure or GCP Preferred Experience Full stack experience is a plus A snapshot of our many perks and benefits as a Cogniter * Competitive compensation * 401(k) with employer matching * Competitive health, dental, vision & disability coverages for employees and all dependents * Unlimited PTO * Paid Parental Leave Program * Employee Referral Program * Join a team of 60 different nationalities with Diversity, Equality and Inclusion (DEI) in focus * A highly modern and fun working environment with sublime culture across the organization, follow us on Instagram @cognitedata to know more * Opportunity to work with and learn from some of the best people on some of the most ambitious projects found anywhere, across industries * Join our HUB ? to be part of the conversation directly with Cogniters and our partners * Paid mobile phone and WiFi 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.

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