Data Scientist
Cognite
Data Science
Oslo, Norway
Posted on Jan 24, 2026
Cognite operates at the forefront of industrial digitalization, building AI and data solutions that solve some of 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.
Our moonshot is bold: unlock $100B in customer value by 2035 and redefine how global industry works.
What Cognite is Relentless to achieve
We thrive in challenges. We challenge assumptions. We execute with speed and ownership. If you view obstacles as signals to step forward - not step back - you’ll feel at home here. Join us in this venture where AI and data meet ingenuity, and together, we forge the path to a smarter, more connected industrial future.
How you’ll demonstrate Ownership
- Develop and deploy scalable solutions for customer use cases from Oil and Gas, Manufacturing and Power & Utilities industries using Cognite’s core capabilities
- Participate in intensive use case generation workshops with subject matter experts to understand the problem and how it maps to the data
- Perform data cleansing and exploratory data analysis
- Implement physical models / machine learning models in Python and deploy to our model hosting environment
- Design and develop domain specific information and data models
- Apply GenAI techniques to enhance data-driven decision-making in customer use cases
- Build dashboards in Grafana, Power BI, Plotly or Dash for visualizing the solutions
- Utilize and contribute to solution templates and best practices within the Data Science team
- Mentoring and coaching junior team members is an important part of being a Senior at Cognite
- Collaborate with data engineers, project managers and solution architects on project deliveries to enable our customers to achieve the full potential of our industrial dataops platform
- Support customers and partners in conducting data science tasks with Cognite products
The Impact you bring to Cognite
The Data Science team at Cognite plays a crucial role in building data-driven solutions that empower our clients to make impactful business decisions. As a Data Scientist at Cognite, you will work on challenging data-problems with leaders in the industry. You will be a part of cross-functional teams that include data engineers, solution architects, and project managers. Together, your focus will be on configuring, deploying, and operationalizing digital solutions in sectors such as Oil and Gas, Power & Utilities, and Manufacturing.
Additionally, you will engage with clients to understand their desired outcomes, lead discovery workshops, and provide insights on potential strategies and obstacles.
The Data Science team is a part of the EMEA delivery team in our Global Delivery organization. Global Delivery is truly global, with offices in Oslo (Norway), Phoenix & Houston (USA), Tokyo (Japan) and Bengaluru (India). We are a good mix of Project Managers, Data Scientists, Data Engineers, Solution Architects with domain expertise from Oil and Gas, Power & Utilities and Manufacturing.
We are responsible for delivering successful projects that are flexible and scalable, and foster adoption of our product. In sum, we derive valuable insights from previously hidden data, enabling workers and leaders to transform how heavy asset industries operate to become more efficient and sustainable.
Required Qualifications
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- Bachelor/Master of Science in a quantitative field or mechanical, systems, electrical or industrial engineering
- 2+ years of full-time work experience as a data scientist (preferably within related industry), or data scientist with domain expertise in Oil and Gas or Maintenance or Manufacturing
- Proficient experience with Python and SQL. Experience with Python in a production setting is a plus
- Experience with machine learning methods and techniques, statistics and/or optimization
- Experience with Git
- Experience working customer faced, with external customers
- Experience with managed cloud services such as GCP, Azure or AWS is a plus
- Enjoy working in cross-functional teams
- Able to deliver independently, coach and mentor others internally
- Enjoy challenges and dare to set ambitious goals that drive innovation
- Humility to ask for help and enjoy sharing knowledge with others
Preferred Experience
- Domain knowledge or a good understanding of the Oil and Gas industry Asset Performance Management - covering i.e production optimization is a big plus. (As key CDF advisors, we want out Data Scientist to have a good understanding of our customer data, and assist them in understanding how CDF can help solve their problems related to i.e production optimization
A snapshot of our many perks and benefits as a Cogniter
* Join an organization of 60 different nationalities 🌐 with Diversity, Equality and Inclusion (DEI) in focus 🤝
* A highly modern and fun working environment with sublime culture across the organization, follow us on Instagram @cognitedata 📷 to know more
* Flat structure with direct access to decision-makers
* Opportunity to work with and learn from some of the best people on some of the most ambitious projects found anywhere, across industries, with cutting edge technology
* Join our HUB 🗣️ to be part of the conversation directly with Cogniters and our partners.
* Get access to private health services with Cognite Care.
* Hungry? We’ve got your back. A subsidized lunch at the canteen is delivered by the chefs at Fornebuporten (Aker Tech House)
* Our own Cognite exclusive coffee bar ☕ with the friendliest baristas is here to brew coffee for coffee lovers, tea for tea lovers, smoothie for smoothie lovers, and the baristas creative concoctions when the mood strikes.
* We take your mental- and physical health seriously by having a broad health offering and a free membership to our fully-staffed gym on-site.
* A pet lover? Get the chance to meet Spot at the Robot Garden!
Equal Opportunity
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.