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TLDR: Cognyx is a fast-growing Applied AI company reinventing Hardware Engineering. As Principal Deployment Strategist, you’ll own our most strategic deployments for which you’ll define focus, impact, story and delivery. You’ll coach the team of Deployment Strategist and FDE - Forward Deployed Engineer working with you. You’ll define what “deployment” means at Cognyx, in terms of team size and structure, product feedback loop, project steering. Year-1 mix: 70% delivery, 30% designing the model that comes next. Excited? Apply here ⬇
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| 🕵️ Position aka / close to… | 🇺🇸 Lead Deployment Strategist, Lead FDE, Principal FDE, Head (VP) of Deployment / of Professional Services / of Forward Deployed Engineering / of Solutions Engineering / of Solutions Architecture / of Delivery / Implementation / of Customer Engineering, Deployment Strategy Lead/Principal, Head of Value Engineering. 🇫🇷 Directeur du Déploiement, Directeur des Opérations Clients, Parter / Associé / Directeur de practice (conseil). | | --- | --- | | 📌 Location(s) | mostly in-person in our Paris HQ (Bastille) | | ✈️ Travel | ≈ 25-30%, mostly client sites in France and Europe (plants, design centres, HQs). | | 💶 Salary range | 150-180 k€ + 10% intéressement + BSPCE | | 📑 Contract type | French CDI (Syntec branch). Usual French perks (incl. ≈ 25+10 ≈ 35 PTO days) | | 👏 Direct reporting line | Matthias, CEO. | | ⏱️ Start Date | Q4-2026 |
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.
Cognyx’s success depends not only on building powerful AI technology, but on making it work inside complex industrial organizations. Our deployments combine workflow redesign, product work, data and system integration, change management, and executive alignment. The last mile is where value is created, or falls apart.
Today, our team of Deployment Strategist and FDE - Forward Deployed Engineer work in tight business-and-tech duos embedded with customers. Several of our design partners are going live into production soon, and both are teaching us what the deployment model actually has to be.
That is the gap we are hiring for. Not a manager to run a machine that does not exist yet, but a senior operator who has already deployed Technology at scale — someone who knows what it takes to get real systems and teams live, can lift the people around them, and can turn what they learn into something we can repeat with our next clients without doubling headcount.