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TLDR: Cognyx is a fast-growing VC-backed AI company reinventing Hardware engineering. As an ‘FDE’, you'll embed with our enterprise client, ship “last-mile software” to deploy our technology, and loop back your field learnings into our core Product. This is a unique opportunity to join our Deployment Team early and contribute to groundbreaking AI-native Tech. If you love versatile tech roles blending Applied AI Engineering, Customer facing work with high stakes, and deep Product thinking… Apply here ⬇

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🕵️ Position aka / close to… Forward Deployed Software Engineer, Deployment Engineer, Applied AI Engineer, Customer Engineer, Embedded Engineer, AI Ops Engineer, Technical Implementation Consultant, Solution Engineer, Integration Engineer, Value Engineer, Implementation Engineer, Field Engineer, Client-Facing Engineer, Resident Engineer… “project-CTO” could work too!
📌 Location(s) mostly in-person in our Paris HQ (Bastille), regularly on-site at clients’ offices.
💶 Salary range 80-150k€ depending on Seniority (Associate FDE ≤ FDE ≤ Senior FDE ≤ Lead FDE ≤ Principal FDE)

Cognyx in a Nutshell


Our Ambition Help the West re-industrialize by empowering thousands of manufacturers to engineer hardware products at software speed!

Our Mission Cognyx develops groundbreaking AI technology enabling Manufacturers to unlock a 10x acceleration in time-to-market, standardization level, and right-first-time production. By leveraging Knowledge Graphs and AI, Cognyx transforms hardware engineers' daily work by reconciling Product & Engineering data across different systems, facilitating faster collaboration, and automating engineering tasks.

Our Story Cognyx is a Seed-stage, VC-backed Tech company founded in early 2024 by repeat-Founders Matthias & Deon. We partnered with OSS Ventures, a leading startup studio with outstanding track record in the Manufacturing space. After rapid sales growth from world-class Enterprise logos, Cognyx has secured 10m€+ total funding from top-tier investors in France and Europe, along with renowned Business Angels from Tech and Manufacturing.

Our Values We established 4 cardinal values guiding our Operating philosophy: Speed (AI startups live or die depending how fast they ship), Team work (we will fail or succeed as a group), Excellence (we don’t settle for “mediocre” or “average”), Sincerity (we tell the truth to others, and to ourselves).

Our team Cognyx’s team is ≈ 20-people strong, mostly senior profiles working in-person in Paris. As part of our first employees in Paris, joining us in the early years, your individual contribution will have a decisive impact on our future trajectory. You’ll work directly with experienced Founders who have built successful companies before — an excellent opportunity if you’re looking to grow into a founder or entrepreneur yourself!

Learn More: Visit our website, Careers @ Cognyx, or our :linkedin_logo: LinkedIn page.

Why Cognyx Needs You 🫵


Cognyx is an engineering platform that solves complex organizational and technical challenges across the hardware development lifecycle. As a Forward Deployed AI Engineer, you’ll work directly with our enterprise customers to drive Cognyx adoption by deeply understanding their domain Ontology, designing the data + knowledge layer (connectors, normalization, entity resolution, graph modeling), and shipping AI-powered workflows on top of the Cognyx Core Platform (retrieval, reasoning, and automation).

This isn’t a typical SaaS implementation: you'll work directly with our enterprise customers to drive Cognyx adoption by deeply understanding their domain Ontology, configuring the platform to their reality, and shipping AI-powered workflows on top of the Cognyx Core Platform (retrieval, reasoning, and automation). Where our tooling does not yet cover a customer's need, you write the code, and you own it in production..