Cognite

Cognite is a global industrial Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) leader, with an eye on the future and a drive to digitalize the industrial world. We’ve created a new class of industrial software which allows asset-intensive industries to operate more sustainably, securely, and efficiently. Our core software product is Cognite Data Fusion (CDF), designed to quickly contextualize OT/IT data to develop and scale company solutions. We use technology like hybrid AI, big data, machine learning, and 3D modelling to get there. We serve oil and gas, power and utilities, renewable energy, manufacturing, and other heavy-asset industries. Our technology helps them operate through transitions, sustainably and to scale, and without sacrificing bottom lines. We believe data must be made accessible, insightful, and open. In other words, we help our customers make data do more. And with that pave way for a full-scale digital transformation of heavy industry. Founded in 2016, we now number 700 strong, including some of the best software developers, data scientists, designers, and 3D specialists in the field. Hailing from 50 nationalities, we’re talented, curious, and fun to be around. Get to know us better: Life at Cognite: linkedin.com/company/cognitedata/life/ Make data do more: makedatadomore.cognite.com/ Twitter: @CogniteData Facebook: @CogniteData IG: @CogniteData Youtube: /c/cognite

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Cognite

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HQUS

Team Size833

Open Jobs81

Total Funding$225M

TL;DR

What: Industrial AI software company focused on making complex industrial OT/IT data findable and usable.

Core product: Cognite Data Fusion — an open, secure Industrial Data & AI platform that contextualizes industrial data with a unified data model and connectors.

Customers / sectors: Asset-intensive industries (oil & gas, power & utilities, renewable energy, manufacturing, process industries).

Funding / valuation signals: Raised a $150M round led by TCV (May 19, 2021; valuation reported at $1.6B); total disclosed capital referenced as ~USD 225M; strategic investor Saudi Aramco holds a reported stake.

HQ: Relocated global headquarters to Tempe, Arizona (announced December 3, 2025; previously based in Oslo, Norway).

Company Overview

Problem Domain

Bridging fragmented industrial OT/IT data to enable analytics, AI, and operational decision-making for heavy-asset industries.

Industry

IT Services and IT Consulting

Tech Stack

hybrid AI

machine learning

big data

3D modelling

data connectors / extractors

contextualized data models

Industrial DataOps

Funding Track Record

Growth equity- 2021-05-19

USD 150000000

Round reported to value the company at USD 1.6 billion.

- 2022-02-02

Announcement states Saudi Aramco acquired a 7.4% stake (secondary transaction) and company referenced total capital raised of USD 225 million.

Investor Signal

“Backed by growth/technology investors (TCV, Accel) with strategic/majority stakeholders including Aker; Saudi Aramco holds a reported minority stake.”

Founders

What we do

TL;DR

Company Overview

Funding Track Record

Founders

What we do

Cognite

cognite.com

Cognite

cognite.com

HQUS

Team Size833

Open Jobs81

Total Funding$225M

TL;DR

What: Industrial AI software company focused on making complex industrial OT/IT data findable and usable.

Core product: Cognite Data Fusion — an open, secure Industrial Data & AI platform that contextualizes industrial data with a unified data model and connectors.

Customers / sectors: Asset-intensive industries (oil & gas, power & utilities, renewable energy, manufacturing, process industries).

HQ: Relocated global headquarters to Tempe, Arizona (announced December 3, 2025; previously based in Oslo, Norway).

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Company Overview

Problem Domain

Bridging fragmented industrial OT/IT data to enable analytics, AI, and operational decision-making for heavy-asset industries.

Industry

IT Services and IT Consulting

Tech Stack

hybrid AI

machine learning

big data

3D modelling

data connectors / extractors

contextualized data models

Industrial DataOps

Funding Track Record

Growth equity- 2021-05-19

USD 150000000

Round reported to value the company at USD 1.6 billion.

- 2022-02-02

Announcement states Saudi Aramco acquired a 7.4% stake (secondary transaction) and company referenced total capital raised of USD 225 million.

Investor Signal

“Backed by growth/technology investors (TCV, Accel) with strategic/majority stakeholders including Aker; Saudi Aramco holds a reported minority stake.”

Founders

What we do

Join the Team

Senior Principal Architect

HybridBengaluru, Karnataka, IN

Hybrid • Bengaluru, Karnataka, IN

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 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 design, development, and evolution of our data integration architecture. The architecture covers data ingestion, staging, transformation, contextualization and data pipeline orchestration. There is a large opportunity to make a step change in this area using generative AI. As a principal architect you will be responsible for the technical design of our foundational 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.

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Technical Writer

Part-timeSan Francisco, US

Part-time • San Francisco, US

AI Researcher

Full-timeJerusalem

Full-time • Jerusalem

Software Engineer

Part-timeHamburg, DE

Part-time • Hamburg, DE

Machine Learning Engineer

Full-timeLondon, GB

Full-time • London, GB

Product Designer

ContractNew York, US

Contract • New York, US

Data Scientist

Part-timeJerusalem

Part-time • Jerusalem

Lead the technical design our data integration and contextualization services
Make technical decisions that give Cognite a competitive edge
Take advantage of recent advancements in AI to develop a future-proof data integration product
Ensure that the architecture in the Data Integration 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
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 services with regards to data integration
Work closely with delivery teams and other product areas to ensure our data integration capabilities cater to their needs and works well with the rest of our product, for example by making sure that AI agents can be embedded into our data pipelines
Mentor senior developers