Senior Academy Engineer

Overview

The Senior Academy Engineer designs and develops scalable learning content and experiences for Cognite Academy, translating complex technical concepts into engaging learning materials and hands-on experiences. The role supports customer, partner, and internal-team adoption of Cognite technology through modern instructional design, AI-enabled learning, technical enablement, and role-based learning journeys.

What you'll do

• Design and develop scalable, high-quality learning content and experiences for Cognite Academy.
• Translate complex technical concepts into clear, engaging learning materials, labs, assessments, and hands-on experiences.
• Build and maintain content standards, templates, reusable frameworks, and quality guidelines.
• Leverage AI tools and automation to improve content development, localization, assessment creation, and quality assurance.
• Own and optimize the Skilljar learning platform, including course publishing, learning paths, configurations, reporting, and automation.
• Partner with technical SMEs, Product, Engineering, and Academy teams to ensure content is accurate, relevant, and aligned with learner needs.
• Analyze learner and platform data to improve content effectiveness, engagement, completion, and certification outcomes.
• Drive continuous improvement of content, learning experiences, and Academy platform capabilities.

What you'll need

• 8+ years of experience in instructional design, learning experience design, technical training, customer education, or enterprise learning.
• Proven experience designing complex technical learning programs for enterprise software, SaaS, AI, cloud platforms, industrial software, developer technologies, or data platforms.
• Experience leading instructional design or content-development teams in a high-growth or fast-paced environment.
• Deep expertise in adult learning theory, learning science, instructional design methodologies, and performance-based learning.
• Advanced experience designing instructor-led, virtual instructor-led, self-paced, blended, and digital learning experiences.
• Strong experience with modern eLearning and AI-enabled content development tools such as Articulate Rise, Synthesia, Storyline, or equivalent platforms.
• Hands-on experience with Skilljar or another enterprise customer education / learning platform, including learning paths, publishing, reporting, governance, or automation.
• Experience designing technical assessments, certifications, or performance-based learning.

Details

• Location: Bengaluru, India.