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Sr. Customer Solutions Engineer
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In today's dynamic worksites, seamless collaboration between people and machines is essential. FORT's platform ensures safe, secure, and dynamic control that surpasses legacy systems and next-generation AI capabilities.
While autonomous machines offer significant advantages, they also introduce new safety challenges. FORT addresses these concerns by providing solutions such as the Wireless E-Stop, which allows operators to instantly stop any machine from a safe distance, enhancing safety during emergencies.
Additionally, FORT's Safe Remote Control enables operators to manage heavy machinery remotely, reducing the risk of accidents and improving visibility.
By ensuring communications integrity across any network, FORT empowers customers to protect their most valuable assets—people, data, and machines—ensuring they remain safe and secure.
The Sr. Customer Solutions Engineer is a customer-facing technical role responsible for enabling the successful integration of FORT products into customer robotic systems and platforms. This engineer will serve as FORT's primary technical presence at customer sites, guiding integration design, resolving implementation challenges, and ensuring customers achieve full functional and safety compliance with FORT's control systems.
This is a high-impact, high-visibility position requiring strong technical depth, strong interpersonal communication, and the ability to operate independently in fast-paced industrial environments.
Key Responsibilities
- Travel to customer sites (up to 80%) to support integration of FORT wireless E-Stop and remote-control products into AGVs, AMRs, and custom automation platforms
- Conduct integration design reviews, site assessments, and technical walkthroughs with customer engineering teams.
- Advise on integration architecture, including CAN bus topology, wiring schematics, and API-based software integration.
- Apply functional safety principles to validate safety-rated system designs
- Deliver remote integration support when appropriate with FORT customers.
- Produce field reports, integration guides, and configuration documentation for internal and customer use.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Robotics, or related field
- 3–7 years in systems engineering, field applications, or technical integration in robotics or industrial automation
- Hands-on experience with CAN bus protocols and API integration in industrial contexts
- Working knowledge of electrical systems, control schematics, and functional safety standards
- Ability to travel up to 80%, including occasional international travel
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience integrating wireless control or E-Stop systems into mobile robotics platforms
- Familiarity with ROS, PLC-based systems, or industrial protocols (EtherNet/IP, Modbus)
The base salary for this position ranges from $115,000 to $150,000, based on qualifications, experience, and the level at which the candidate is hired. Total compensation may also include additional incentives and benefits.
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Enterprise / Principal Field Engineer
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What Cognite is: Relentless to achieve
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
The Enterprise Field Engineering team leads the technical relationship as a customer scales beyond initial implementations and deployments into broader expansion and full enterprise-wide adoption. Enterprise Field Engineers help to validate technology fit, architect and demonstrate new use cases and support deployment and operationalization as adoption expands. They are also essential in enabling our partner ecosystem, ensuring solution integrity, and elevating the Cognite experience through feedback loops to Product and Customer Enablement.
The Enterprise Field Engineering team works in close partnership with the Account Management team to grow and expand customers to enterprise scale and beyond.The Impact you bring to Cognite
Client Engagement and Solution Development
- You act as a technical liaison to key clients, establishing trusted relationships and ensuring alignment on solutions, integration architectures, and technical roadmaps to secure their willingness and confidence to scale and expand their use of Cognite Data Fusion®.
- Your close collaboration with Account Managers and Sales teams results in identified and prioritized client opportunities that drive mutual business value.
Client Education and Technical Representation
- You educate clients on Cognite Data Fusion® and related offerings, leading to successful adoption, solution integration, and value realization.
- You develop client-focused demos, reference architectures, and solution accelerators utilized by Cognite teams and customers.
- You represent Cognite in client meetings, workshops, and technical briefings to leverage your technical expertise to build client confidence.
Internal Collaboration and Product Alignment
- You act as a bridge between clients and Cognite’s Product organization, translating client feedback and needs into clear, actionable product requirements.
- You ensure client-integrated solutions are technically feasible, scalable, and aligned with Cognite’s broader product strategy.
- You provide continuous technical feedback and market insights from client interactions to inform product development and enhance competitive positioning.
Sales and Field Engineering Enablement
- You partner with field engineering and sales teams to provide technical support on client opportunities, including technical account strategy, solution architecture, and use-case development.
- You serve as a technical escalation point for complex client engagements, offering guidance and assistance to the broader sales organization.
- You organize and manage client workshops and technical meetings, ensuring high-quality execution and alignment with client objectives.
Technical Leadership and Best Practices
- You develop and promote best practices, frameworks, and reference architectures to strengthen Cognite’s position as a leader in client-focused industrial solutions.
- You mentor other Field Engineers, sharing technical expertise and best practices related to client engagement and solution development.
- You share insights and learnings from client interactions to enhance team effectiveness and responsiveness to market demands.
Required qualifications
- Extensive experience (5+ years) in solution architecture, field engineering, or technical presales/postsales roles, ideally in enterprise SaaS, cloud platforms, or industrial software.
- Hands-on in Python, as well as good hands-on expertise with software development best practices.
- Strong client-facing skills, with experience building trusted relationships with technology partners, enterprise clients, and internal stakeholders to co-create solutions and drive joint opportunities.
- Expertise in industrial data, OT/IT convergence, and data integration patterns, with the ability to design scalable architectures that connect operational and enterprise systems.
- Good understanding of data platforms, APIs, and integration methods, including data pipelines, storage, security, and governance — particularly in cloud and hybrid environments.
Preferred qualifications
- Education or practical experience relevant to our key industry focus areas. (E.g. petroleum engineering, chemical engineering, mechanical engineering, control system engineering, process engineering, etc.)
- Knowledge of services and architectures provided by hyper scalers such as Azure, AWS and GCP.
- Demonstrated ability to lead technical validations and solution accelerators that showcase the value of complex integrated solutions to partners and customers.
- Experience working closely with product and engineering teams, providing field feedback to shape product development and align solutions with customer and partner needs.
- Strong communication, presentation, and influencing skills, with the ability to translate complex technical concepts into business value for diverse audiences including executives, partners, and technical teams.
- Impact 2025
- Cognite's Industrial AI: Moonshot
- We’re globally recognized domain experts with an international presence that spans Phoenix, Houston, Oslo Tokyo, Bengaluru, and Abu Dhabi.
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Field Engineer
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Position Summary:
The Field Engineer will serve as engineering support for our sales team assisting with construction management and after-sales field support. This role will require frequent travel to job sites throughout a specific territory but will be based at our sales office in Bala Cynwyd, PA. The position will include both field and office work.
Position will involve extensive formalized training plus work under a mentor, developing skills and gaining an understanding of CaptiveAire products, troubleshooting, and application engineering processes etc.
Why Work for CaptiveAire?
- Nation’s leading manufacturer of commercial kitchen ventilation systems, and now offering a complete solution of fans, heaters, ductwork and HVAC equipment.
- Leader in the industry for over 40 years with innovative technologies, unmatched service, competitive pricing, and rapid lead times.
- Mission: to provide the highest quality products and service to our users at the lowest possible price
- Strong commitment to the development of our employees, including continuous education opportunities like sponsorship for Professional Engineering license and continuous education through weekly webinars and company developed technical videos
What our employees have to say:
I can confidently say that I've never been part of a more focused company, working as one big team to achieve amazing success.
There is never a day you don’t learn something new at CaptiveAire. I am able to learn something new due to the freedom to take on new tasks independently and problem solve.
I love the mindset of continuous learning and pushing the bounds of your capabilities and knowledge. I love the people I work with and the environment, particularly in a world where remote work is common. I love how Captiveaire is all about connections, with customers, coworkers, end users, and everyone in between.
One of the things I appreciate most about CaptiveAire is how strongly it embodies the entrepreneurial spirit. I’m empowered with the autonomy to manage my work independently, while also benefiting from the robust support and resources of a large, well-established company.
CaptiveAire is fast-moving and no-nonsense. We operate differently than any other company that I've worked for with our decentralized structure. Quick action is taken when a good idea is presented. We are focused on end users where the rest of the industry is very short-sighted. We are on the front lines, actively changing the landscape of the HVAC industry.
Learn more about CaptiveAire and our products here
A Day in the Life:
This position will encompass a wide variety of tasks where one day does not look exactly like the next. The projects our team handles are high in volume and unique from one another, spanning throughout the whole course of design, procurement, coordination, and post-sale support.
Typical tasks include:
- Estimated 50% to 75% of time spent in the field on job sites
- Supporting installations and equipment start ups to ensure high quality outcomes and adherence to engineering principles
- Handling complex troubleshooting issues
- Customer service and coordination with all parties – CaptiveAire team, contractors, engineers, installers, CaptiveAire Service
Primary Job Responsibilities:
- A combination of being in the field working on job sites and data analysis and remote troubleshooting using building management system (travel required)
- Product Support - Troubleshoot issues with existing and newly installed equipment in the field and provide immediate solutions
- Maintain expert level knowledge of all CaptiveAire products
- Work closely with engineering team, service team, local sales team and customers to help find best outcomes on installed jobs
- On site for construction trade coordination meetings and startups to ensure a good outcome
- Review and analyze data gathered from installed equipment in order to make product improvements, utilizing our CASLink remote monitoring system
- Use mechanical building design knowledge to review applications for customers and suggest improvements in operation
- Perform 3rd party training for outside contractors on CaptiveAire products
- Provide reports to Regional Manager as well as other teams on customer feedback/challenges, quality, product improvements/issues
Required skills:
- 0-5 yrs experience
- 4 year technical degree in a mechanical, electrical, construction or science-oriented curriculum preferred
- Hands on, technical internship/co-op experience is preferred
- Must enjoy hands on product exposure
- HVAC and/or electrical experience strongly preferred
- Multi-tasking, problem solving and strong communication skills a must
- If not already completed, expectation of FE Exam completion in area of study for engineering graduates within 6 months of employment with CaptiveAire
- MUST BE A “GO GETTER”!
- Must be able to travel for training
Benefits:
- Medical, dental and vision insurance
- Disability & life insurance based upon election of medical insurance
- 401k with employer match
- Paid holidays
- Paid time off (PTO) based upon tenure
- Flexible spending account (FSA)
- Tuition reimbursement, including for Professional Engineering (PE) License
- Relocation assistance
Salary:
$70k-$100k base, negotiable dependent on experience, with additional monthly bonus based on productivity and profits.
Captive-Aire Systems, Inc. is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We review applications for employment without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, uniformed services, genetic information, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status, or any other basis prohibited by law.
To qualify, applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States. At this time we are not able to consider applicants that require sponsorship, now or in the future, for employment visa status.
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