Engineering Manager, Industrial Experiences
Cognite
Software Engineering, Other Engineering
Oslo, Norway
Posted on Nov 21, 2025
About Cognite
Embark on a transformative journey with Cognite, a global SaaS forerunner in leveraging AI and data to unravel complex business challenges through our cutting-edge offerings including Cognite Atlas AI, an industrial agent workbench, and the Cognite Data Fusion (CDF) platform. We were awarded the 2022 Technology Innovation Leader for Global Digital Industrial Platforms & Cognite was recognized as 2024 Microsoft Energy and Resources Partner of the Year. In the realm of industrial digital transformation, we stand at the forefront, reshaping the future of Oil & Gas, Chemicals, Pharma and other Manufacturing and Energy sectors. Join us in this venture where AI and data meet ingenuity, and together, we forge the path to a smarter, more connected industrial future.
Our values
Impact: Cogniters strive to make an impact in all that they do. We are result-oriented, always asking ourselves.
Ownership: Cogniters embrace a culture of ownership. We go beyond our comfort zones to contribute to the greater good, fostering inclusivity and sharing responsibilities for challenges and success.
Relentless: Cogniters are relentless in their pursuit of innovation. We are determined and deliverable (never ruthless or reckless), facing challenges head-on and viewing setbacks as opportunities for growth.
A typical day as a Cogniter will contain the following tasks & responsibilities:
- Own the end-to-end mission and capacity of your team (6-10 engineers), executing on applications and services that operate at global industrial scale. Continuously refine the team's structure, tooling, and processes to optimize throughput and technical agility.
- Drive operational excellence and serve as the technical authority for your domain. Ensure all engineering artifacts meet the highest internal bar for quality and maintainability, ensuring system architecture and operational decisions maximize throughput while driving cost efficiency and managing cloud expenditure.
- Lead team-level architecture and strategic direction. Drive architectural trade-offs (short-term impact vs. long-term quality/debt) that directly impact the platform's scalability and reliability.
- Guaranteeing predictable delivery while proactively mitigating technical risk and debt. Act as the primary point of contact for cross-functional stakeholders, using a candid, solution-oriented approach to resolve high-stakes dependencies.
- Coach engineers on their development. Actively model and enforce a culture of radical candor and high-performance accountability. Dedicate time to identifying and mentoring successor talent within the team.
- Ensure the team's engineering outcomes are directly traceable to customer value and company revenue drivers by owning the feedback loop from production data to product execution.
Required Experience & Leadership Profile
- People Leadership: 5+ years of direct people management experience is strongly preferred. You have a proven history of coaching engineers and/or scaling complex engineering teams through periods of change and ambiguity.
- Strategic Background: You possess experience from a high-bar engineering culture (e.g., top-tier B2B SaaS, hyper-scaler, or leading platform company) with a track record of driving change in a complex, multi-product environment.
- Technical Depth: Deep expertise in building and operating fault-tolerant, low-latency, high-volume data processing systems at exabyte scale (P99 reliability). You understand the cost-to-serve implications of architectural decisions.
- Architectural Versatility & Innovation: Demonstrated experience designing, launching, and managing strategic architectural pivots (e.g., shift from monolithic to composable systems). You are a builder of platforms, not just applications.
- Stakeholder management: You possess excellent written and verbal communication skills in English, adept at aligning executives and external partners with organizational objectives, including interactions with senior leadership..
- Frontend Platform Leadership: Experience designing, launching, or managing application development frameworks, UI component libraries, or design systems.
- AI/ML Integration: Practical experience integrating AI models, agents, or advanced analytics directly into platform services or user workflows (e.g., supporting context transfer or intelligent decision-making).
- Strategic Ambiguity Management: You possess the executive maturity to lead teams and define direction through significant ambiguity and strategic pivots (L4/Director requirement), translating unclear objectives into concrete execution plans.
- Industry Context (Optional): Prior exposure to the demands and constraints of the Industrial IoT, Oil & Gas, or Asset-Heavy industries is a plus.
Highly Desired
Join us in Oslo, Norway!
- This role offers the unique combination of a mission-critical, high-leverage technical challenge and the opportunity to live in Oslo, Norway:
- Mission & Impact: Work at the confluence of software and heavy industry, solving the world's most complex industrial data problems.
- Direct Executive Influence: This role is positioned within the core engineering leadership team, offering direct influence on the product strategy and governance of the platform.
- The Oslo Offer: Live in Oslo, the core engineering hub for Cognite, offering unparalleled work-life balance, high quality of life, robust public services, and immediate proximity to nature and executive decision-makers.
A snapshot of our many perks and benefits as a Cogniter
* Join an organization 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
* Flat structure with direct access to decision-makers
* Opportunity to work with and learn from some of the best people on some of the most ambitious projects found anywhere, across industries, with cutting edge technology
* Join our HUB 🗣️ to be part of the conversation directly with Cogniters and our partners.
* Get access to private health services with Cognite Care.
* Hungry? We’ve got your back. A subsidized lunch at the canteen is delivered by the chefs at Fornebuporten (Aker Tech House)
* Our own Cognite exclusive coffee bar ☕ with the friendliest baristas is here to brew coffee for coffee lovers, tea for tea lovers, smoothie for smoothie lovers, and the baristas creative concoctions when the mood strikes.
* We take your mental- and physical health seriously by having a broad health offering and a free membership to our fully-staffed gym on-site.
* A pet lover? Get the chance to meet Spot at the Robot Garden!
Why choose Cognite? 🏆 🚀
Join us in making a real and lasting impact in one of the most exciting and fastest-growing new software companies in the world. We have repeatedly demonstrated that digital transformation, when anchored on strong DataOps, drives business value and sustainabilityfor clients and allows front-line workers, as well as domain experts, to make better decisions every single day. We were recognized as one of CNBC's top global enterprise technology startups powering digital transformation! And just recently, Frost & Sullivan named Cognite a Technology Innovation Leader! 🥇 Most recently Cognite Data Fusion® Achieved Industry First DNV Compliance for Digital Twins 🥇
Apply today!
If you're excited about the opportunity to work at Cognite and make a difference in the tech industry, we encourage you to apply today! We welcome candidates of all backgrounds and identities to join our team. Please do not hesitate to contact our Talent Acquisition team with any questions -
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