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title: 'Forward Deployed Engineer at Kognitos'
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# Forward Deployed Engineer at Kognitos

- **Company:** Kognitos
- **Location:** United States
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-07-13
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-12
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kognitos/75ef6778-ee45-4eb5-b2fa-02834f78a986

## Job description

Forward Deployed Engineer Kognitos | Mountain View, CA (Hybrid) — open to remote for the right candidate | Full-time

## About Kognitos

Kognitos is a neurosymbolic agentic AI platform that automates finance, accounts payable, healthcare, and IT workflows in plain English — an approach the company calls “English as Code.” By combining large language models with symbolic reasoning, Kognitos eliminates hallucinations and ensures every automation follows deterministic business logic, with patented conversational exception handling that captures tribal knowledge and turns it into documented enterprise IP. Kognitos is trusted by enterprise customers including PepsiCo and Wipro, and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA, with engineering and customer-success teams distributed across North America, Europe, and India.

## About the Role

As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you'll sit at the intersection of engineering and customer success — embedding directly with enterprise customers to design, build, and ship automations on the Kognitos platform. You'll turn ambiguous, undocumented business processes into working, production-grade automations, often writing code alongside customer teams, and you'll be the feedback loop that shapes our product roadmap based on what you learn in the field.

## What You'll Do

- Partner directly with enterprise customers — finance, AP, healthcare, and IT teams — to scope, design, and implement automations on the Kognitos platform
- Translate ambiguous business requirements and undocumented processes into working “English as Code” automations
- Build custom integrations between Kognitos and customer systems: ERPs, databases, APIs, email, and document sources
- Debug and resolve production issues at customer sites, often under time pressure
- Own the technical relationship with key accounts through onboarding, deployment, and expansion
- Feed field learnings back to product and engineering to improve the platform for every customer
- Travel to customer sites as needed (up to ~25%)

## What We're Looking For

- 3+ years of experience as a software engineer, solutions engineer, or forward deployed engineer, ideally in a customer-facing technical role
- Strong proficiency in Python and/or another general-purpose language; comfort reading and writing production code
- Experience integrating with enterprise systems (REST/SOAP APIs, databases, ERP or finance systems, or RPA tools)
- Ability to operate independently in ambiguous, fast-moving customer environments
- Excellent communication skills — able to explain technical tradeoffs to both engineers and business stakeholders
- Comfort with occasional travel

## Nice to Have

- Background in enterprise automation, RPA, or workflow orchestration (e.g., UiPath, Automation Anywhere, Camunda)
- Experience with LLMs, NLP, or AI-driven automation
- Prior experience in finance, accounts payable, or healthcare operations
- Startup experience, particularly at a Series A/B stage company

## Why Kognitos

- Ground-floor opportunity at a fast-growing, well-funded AI automation company
- Direct impact on product direction — your fieldwork shapes what gets built next
- Work with category-defining “English as Code” technology
- Collaborative, distributed team across North America, Europe, and India

Note: Location, compensation, and specific requirements are placeholders — update before publishing to match the actual role.

Final note You do not need to match all of the listed expectations to apply for this position. We are committed to building a team with a variety of backgrounds, experiences, and skills.

## Equal opportunities provider

Kognitos is committed to fostering a diverse work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.

## About Kognitos

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Kognitos provides a hallucination-free, deterministic agentic AI automation platform that allows enterprises to automate mission-critical business processes using plain English, with full governance and auditability.
- **Entity Type**: Private (backed by leading venture capital firms)
- **Headquarters**: Mountain View, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2020
- **Founders**: Binny Gill (former CTO at Nutanix)

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Enterprise AI automation, business process automation, agentic AI
- **Target customers**: Large enterprises (finance, supply chain, procurement, IT, healthcare) – B2B, Enterprise
- **Mission / Purpose**: Deliver the world’s most trusted AI automation platform – secure, auditable, and hallucination-free, empowering enterprises to automate critical operations with complete confidence.

## Products & Services
- **Kognitos Platform (Agentic AI Automation)**: A governed, production-ready platform where business users describe automation workflows in plain English. The patented neurosymbolic AI engine executes every rule deterministically (zero hallucinations), with real-time audit trails, exception handling that learns, and over 200 pre-built connectors to ERP, CRM, cloud, and legacy systems.
- **Core Modules**: Natural Language Builder (no-code automation via chats, apps, document processing, living SOPs), Agent Manager (orchestration of governed agents), Knowledge Engineering (captures business variance and builds institutional memory).
- **Deployment Options**: SaaS, customer VPC, or hybrid cloud.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Key Metric**: Total funding not publicly reported; backed by a strong syndicate of investors (see below). Customer results include a process generating **$5M/month in revenue** (up from $1.2M), **50,000+ monthly BoLs processed**, and **3,300 hours of manual work eliminated per year** for one client.
- **Notable Investors / Partners**: Khosla Ventures, Clear Ventures, Fin Capital, Engineering Capital, plus strategic operators from Nutanix, Snowflake, and other enterprise companies. Partners include AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle, Salesforce, Epic, and many more.
- **Growth Signals**: Named **ISG Buyers Guide Leader 2025**, **theCUBE Most Innovative AI Product 2026**, **HFS Hot Tech 2026**, **Gartner Hype Cycle Sample Vendor 2025**. Customer roster includes DISH Network, PepsiCo, Paysafe, Century Supply Chain, TTX, Norco, JBI, Builders FirstSource, and others. Headcount: ~100 employees (60 in product+tech) as per Built In.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Hallucination-free by architecture**: Patented neurosymbolic AI executes deterministic business logic (not probabilistic guesses), critical for finance, healthcare, and compliance-heavy workflows.
- **Plain English as an executable interface**: Business users can describe processes without code or flowcharts, collapsing time-to-value from months to days.
- **Built-in governance and audit**: Every step is logged and auditable; SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, GDPR, ISO 27001 compliant.
- **Exception learning**: When unexpected events occur, the system handles them, asks for approval, and remembers the fix – continuously improving operations.
- **Massive integration ecosystem**: 200+ pre-built connectors to major ERP/CRM/cloud platforms.

## Strategic Focus
- Deepening enterprise adoption in finance, procurement, supply chain, and IT operations.
- Scaling the platform’s ability to handle unstructured data (emails, PDFs, contracts) alongside structured records.
- Expanding the “Knowledge Engineering” capability to turn organizational variance into a competitive moat.
- Continuous investment in multi-model LLM support (Claude, Gemini, OpenAI, BYOM) without vendor lock-in.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Mission-driven, customer-obsessed, radical transparency, ownership mentality, and empathy. Every team member talks to customers. Emphasis on “Ship & Iterate” fast learning cycles.
- **Work Environment**: Hybrid model – typically 3 days in-office at Mountain View, CA (HQ) or Bengaluru, India; remote US and Costa Rica roles available. Flexible hours with trust-based management.
- **Perks & Values**: All employees own equity (“every person at Kognitos owns Kognitos”). Strong focus on integrity, humility, and passion. Teams are distributed across North America, Europe, and India.
- **Engineering Culture**: Tackling novel problems at the intersection of NLP, deterministic execution, and enterprise scale. Tech stack includes modern AI/ML frameworks, cloud infrastructure, and robust backend systems.

## Sources
1. [kognitos.com](https://www.kognitos.com/) – Product overview, integrations, customer results, compliance
2. [kognitos.com/careers](https://www.kognitos.com/careers/) – Open positions, culture description
3. [kognitos.com/about-us](https://www.kognitos.com/about-us/) – Mission, vision, founder story, investor list, values
4. [builtin.com/company/kognitos](https://builtin.com/company/kognitos) – Employee count (100 total, 60 product+tech), office locations, hybrid policy, technology stack
5. [linkedin.com/company/kognitos](https://www.linkedin.com/company/kognitos) – Headquarters, industry, employee count verification

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