Engineering Manager, Atlas AI

Cognite; Phoenix (AZ); Sur place; USD 150 000 - 190 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Competitive compensation

401(k) with employer matching

Health, dental, vision & disability

Global presence across multiple cities

Résumé du poste

Cognite in Phoenix, AZ is seeking a customer-focused Software Engineering Manager to lead a team of 5-10 engineers building services and AI agents for industrial AI, including Atlas AI and knowledge-graph driven workflows. You will collaborate with designers, product managers and program managers to ensure the team builds the right product of excellent quality and delivers on time.

Lead production-grade SaaS with strong telemetry, testing, and incident response while mentoring engineers to

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10+ years of software engineering experience.
• 5+ years of direct people management experience.
• Deep technical expertise in modern cloud architectures, scalable microservices, and Python backends, TypeScript/React frontends, Kubernetes across multi-cloud environments.
• Understanding of software development lifecycle, testing, and operations.
• Experience building applications on AI/ML models or LLMs; familiarity with AI tooling.

Responsabilités

• Lead, inspire, and mentor a team of 5-10 software engineers, fostering career growth and technical excellence.
• Develop services, applications, and AI agents to enable industrial customers to unlock operational data value and automate workflows.
• Drive production-grade SaaS development with on-call rotations, SLOs, and incident response processes.
• Promote a culture of quality with automated testing, telemetry, monitoring, and robust testing strategies.
• Coach engineers to maximize impact regardless of background or seniority.
• Collaborate with designers, PMs, and program managers to deliver high-quality products on time.
• Work with industrial domain experts to understand pain points and opportunities for AI/data-driven improvements.
• Unblock the team and coordinate with stakeholders to resolve problems.
• Provide architectural guidance and code reviews; contribute to core codebases when needed.

Connaissances

Software engineering

People management

Cloud architectures

Python

TypeScript/React

Kubernetes

AI/ML/LLMs

Communication

Formation

Bachelor's / Master’s in CS or related field

Description du poste

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.

How you’ll demonstrate Ownership

We are seeking a customer-focused Software Engineering Manager at Cognite’s HQ in Phoenix, AZ to lead a team of 5-10 engineers, developing services and applications for industrial AI. Atlas AI is Cognite’s agent builder workbench and agentic runtime that uses LLMs, RAG, and other tools to help optimize and automate industrial business processes leveraging a contextualized knowledge graph. In this role, you will be responsible for leading a high-performing team to drive the development of technologies that transform industrial operations and make data interaction intuitive, effortless, and empowering. Your work will directly impact industrial efficiency and sustainability, which is critical to our mission of powering a high-tech, sustainable, and profitable industrial future.

The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of leading technology teams, a deep understanding of SaaS software, and a passion for driving innovation. As a technical leader, you will collaborate with a cross-functional team consisting of designers, product managers, and program managers to ensure the team builds the right product that is of excellent quality and is delivered on time.

Responsibilities

• Lead, inspire, and mentor a high-performing team of 5-10 software engineers, fostering career growth and technical excellence.
• Develop services, applications, and AI agents and tools to enable industrial software customers to unlock the value of their operational data, and automate complex workflows.
• Drive the team to build, operate, and support production-grade SaaS software, including establishing on-call rotations, defining service level objectives (SLOs), and ensuring a fast and effective incident response process.
• Champion a culture of quality by establishing automated code coverage goals, implementing comprehensive telemetry and monitoring for all services, and developing robust testing strategies to ensure the reliability and scalability of our industrial AI solutions.
• Coach engineers to have a high impact on the team, regardless of their background, seniority, or understanding of the domain.
• Collaborate with a cross-functional team consisting of designers, product managers and program managers to ensure the team builds the right product, that is of excellent quality and is delivered on time.
• Collaborate with industrial domain experts to deeply understand pain points, unmet needs, and opportunities to enhance operational efficiency through AI and data liberation.
• Unblock the team and collaborate with stakeholders outside the team to resolve and mitigate problems.
• Provide architectural guidance and system design oversight, conduct code reviews, and remain hands-on by contributing to core codebases when needed.

The Impact you bring to Cognite

• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10+ years of software engineering experience.
• 5+ years of direct people management experience with a track record of building, scaling, and retaining strong engineering teams.
• Deep technical expertise in modern cloud architectures, scalable microservices, and our core stack: Python backends, TypeScript/React frontends, and Kubernetes deployed across multi-cloud environments (Azure, AWS, GCP).
• Understanding of software engineering and best practices for the full development life cycle including coding standards, build processes, testing, and operations.
• Understanding of generative AI and/or machine learning, and familiarity with the tools and methodologies around them, for instance for measuring accuracy.
• Experience building applications on top of AI/ML models or large language models (LLMs).
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• A genuine and keen interest in building the competency of engineers.

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
• We’re globally recognized domain experts with an international presence that spans Phoenix, Houston, Oslo Tokyo, Bengaluru, and Abu Dhabi.

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.