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Current Opportunities
Reporting To: Contracts Manager, or VP of Operations
Location: USA
About the Role:
We’re looking for a proactive, self-motivated Governments Contracts Specialist. This position will be responsible for managing all aspects of U.S. federal, state, and local government contracts within a commercial business environment. This role ensures compliance with applicable regulations (e.g., FAR, DFARS), reviews and negotiates contract terms, supports proposal development, and collaborates with cross-functional teams to maintain contractual and regulatory integrity while optimizing business outcomes.
Key Responsibilities:
Contract Management
- Review, draft, and negotiate government contracts, subcontracts, modifications, and NDAs.
- Monitor contract performance and ensure adherence to contractual requirements, delivery schedules, and compliance obligations.
- Maintain contract files and documentation in accordance with company policies and government regulations.
Compliance and Risk Mitigation
- Ensure compliance with the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR), Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS), and other applicable laws.
- Advise leadership on contract risk areas and recommend mitigation strategies.
- Support internal audits, DCMA/DCAA reviews, and other government oversight activities.
Proposal and Pricing Support
- Partner with business development and finance teams on RFP/RFQ responses, cost/pricing proposals, and contract-specific terms.
- Analyze solicitation documents to identify critical requirements and potential risks.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Serve as a liaison between the company and government contracting officers or prime contractors.
- Work with operations, finance, and legal teams to resolve contract issues and ensure successful execution.
- Provide training or guidance to internal staff on contract compliance requirements.
Continuous Improvement
- Recommend process improvements for contract management and compliance tracking.
- Stay current with regulatory changes, industry best practices, and company policies.
Performance
- Accuracy and timeliness of contract review and administration.
- Compliance audit outcomes (e.g., no major findings).
- Effectiveness in risk mitigation and resolution of contract issues.
- Contribution to successful proposal submissions and on-time project delivery.
Qualifications:
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Contract Management, Legal Studies, or a related field (Master’s or JD preferred).
- 3–5 years of experience in government contract administration or related field within a commercial setting.
- Familiarity with FAR, DFARS, and other government procurement regulations.
- Experience with Cost Accounting Standards (CAS) and small business or subcontracting plans is a plus.
- Ethical judgment and integrity in handling sensitive government and company information.
- Ability to work independently while managing multiple priorities.
- Collaborative mindset for cross-departmental teamwork.
- Adaptability to changing regulations and fast-paced business environments.
Preferred Skills:
- Strong negotiation, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent attention to detail and organizational abilities.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office and contract management systems.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Reporting To: EVP Sales & Marketing
Location: Hillside, IL
Scope:
The Regional Sales Director (RSD) will drive revenue growth and expand market presence for our engineered industrial solutions within an assigned geographic territory. As an individual contributor, the RSD will be responsible for managing all aspects of regional sales, including identifying opportunities, developing relationships, and closing deals with key customers, end users, distributors, and engineering firms.
This role requires a strategic thinker with deep technical sales experience, strong customer engagement skills, and a track record of success in solution-based B2B selling within industrial markets such as oil & gas, chemical, water/wastewater, or manufacturing.
Responsibilities:
Territory Sales Management:
- Develop and execute regional sales strategies aligned with company objectives to achieve revenue and growth targets.
- Identify new business opportunities and cultivate relationships with end users, OEMs, engineering firms, reps, and distributors.
Customer Engagement
- Serve as the primary point of contact for customers within the region, providing technical product knowledge, proposal support, and application guidance.
- Conduct on-site visits, virtual presentations, and technical discussions to understand customer requirements and propose tailored solutions.
Pipeline Development & Management
- Build and maintain a strong sales pipeline using CRM tools, consistently updating opportunities, forecasts, and activity tracking.
- Deliver accurate and timely reporting on territory performance and market insights.
Proposal Development
- Collaborate with internal sales support, engineering, and marketing teams to prepare and present compelling proposals and bids.
- Provide detailed product specifications and ensure alignment with customer needs.
Market Intelligence
- Monitor competitive activity, pricing trends, and market developments; provide feedback to product and marketing teams.
- Represent Cognesense at industry events, trade shows, and technical seminars as needed.
Experience & Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, or a related technical field.
- Minimum 5+ years of successful B2B sales experience, preferably in industrial equipment, instrumentation, automation, or engineered products.
- Proven track record of consistently achieving or exceeding sales targets.
- Excellent communication, presentation, and negotiation skills.
- Strong technical aptitude with the ability to explain complex products and applications to diverse stakeholders.
- Proficiency with CRM systems and Microsoft Office Suite.
- Willingness to travel within the assigned region (up to 50%).
- Experience working with or selling to sectors such as oil & gas, chemical processing, storage tank systems, water/wastewater, or similar.
- Background in working with rep networks and distributor channels.
- Familiarity with AS400 systems or similar ERP platforms.
Reporting To: Engineering Manager
Location: Atlanta, GA or Chicago, IL [On-Site]
About the Role:
At Cognesense, we design and deliver advanced industrial sensing, control, and RF technologies that enable oil & gas, energy, and manufacturing industries to operate with the highest standards of safety, reliability, and performance.
Our systems are deployed in intrinsically safe environments and certified to FM, UL, ATEX, and IECEx standards. We are seeking a Mid-Level Hardware Design Engineer to design and develop industrial hardware systems that integrate control, sensing, and communication technologies for mission-critical applications.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design and develop analog and digital circuits, power systems, and signal interfaces for industrial products.
- Create and maintain schematics, PCB layouts, and wiring diagrams using OrCAD, AutoCAD Electrical, and AutoCAD Mechanical.
- Collaborate with firmware, RF, and mechanical engineers to ensure seamless system integration.
- Participate in hardware bring-up, validation, and prototype testing, ensuring compliance with FM, UL, ATEX, and IECEx standards.
- Support design documentation, BOM management, and revision control.
- Conduct failure analysis, testing, and troubleshooting for product improvement and field reliability.
- Assist in safety and design reviews related to intrinsic safety, EMC/EMI, and functional safety (IEC 61508).
- PLC knowledge (Allen-Bradley, Siemens) and industrial communication experience are a plus.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, or a related field.
- 2-3 years of experience in hardware or electrical design for industrial or embedded systems.
- Proficiency in OrCAD, AutoCAD Electrical, and AutoCAD Mechanical.
- Strong understanding of analog/digital design, signal conditioning, and power systems.
- Familiarity with industrial communication protocols (Modbus, EtherNet/IP, OPC-UA, RS-485). Knowledge of intrinsic safety, functional safety, and EMC/EMI design principles.
- Exposure to PLC system integration (Allen-Bradley, Siemens).
- Experience with sensor interface design, control panel layouts, or mechanical packaging.
- Understanding of industrial safety certifications (FM, UL, ATEX, IECEx).
- Knowledge of PCB manufacturing processes and hardware testing tools (oscilloscope, logic analyzer).
Why Cognesense:
Join a team that’s redefining industrial safety and control through innovative hardware engineering. At Cognesense, you’ll collaborate with experts in embedded, RF, and control technologies to create products that deliver performance, safety, and dependability in the most demanding environments. Be part of a company where engineering excellence, innovation, and safety drive every design.
Reporting To: Engineering Manager
Location: Atlanta, GA or Chicago, IL [On-Site]
About the Role:
We are seeking a mid-level Embedded Firmware Engineer to design, develop, and maintain firmware for industrial control and IoT-enabled devices. This hands-on role focuses on embedded firmware development for microcontrollers, with the opportunity to work with PLC and industrial control systems (Allen-Bradley or others) as a plus. Experience in Agile development and Scrum is valued.
At Cognesense, we develop advanced embedded and IoT-enabled sensing technologies for the oil & gas, energy, and industrial markets. Our products operate in intrinsically safe environments and meet global safety standards including FM, UL, ATEX, and IECEx. We are committed to making industrial operations safer, smarter, and more connected through intelligent embedded systems.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain embedded firmware for microcontrollers (ARM, STM32, PIC).
- Implement industrial and IoT protocols (Modbus, OPC-UA, MQTT, TCP/IP).
- Support board bring-up, driver development, and hardware integration if needed
- Debug, optimize, and validate firmware for performance, reliability, and safety.
- Collaborate within Agile/Scrum teams for iterative firmware delivery.
- Optional: Integrate or interface with PLC/industrial control systems as required.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s in Electrical or Computer Engineering or related field.
- 2–4 years embedded firmware experience using C/RTOS.
- Strong understanding of microcontroller architectures, peripherals, and real-time systems.
- Experience with hardware-level debugging and peripheral interfaces.
- Familiarity with Agile development and Scrum practices.
- Bonus: Knowledge of PLC systems (Allen-Bradley or other controllers), C++, Python, or IoT protocols.
Reporting To: General Manager
Location: Atlanta, GA or Chicago, IL [On-Site]
About the Role:
Cognesense is seeking a hands-on Manager of Service Operations to lead and transform our Field Service and RMA operations across all brands. This leader owns all aspects of customer service delivery—from field commissioning and troubleshooting to repairs, RMAs, scheduling, service workflows, and customer communications.
We are looking for a servant-leader with a customer-obsessed mindset, someone who operates with urgency, takes ownership, inspires confidence, and ensures customers feel supported at every step. This individual will guide the transition of our service function from a reactive cost center to a profitable, scalable, high-performing business arm that drives customer satisfaction and revenue growth.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead and develop all Field Service and RMA/repair operations across Cognesense brands.
- Ensure rapid, high-quality responses to customer issues—owning communications, prioritization, and resolution.
- Build a customer-first service culture grounded in urgency, accountability, and technical credibility.
- Develop scalable processes for scheduling, dispatch, repair workflow, diagnostics, escalation, and follow-up.
- Create KPIs and dashboards for service levels, turnaround time, utilization, and customer satisfaction.
- Implement pricing strategies, service contracts, extended warranties, and other revenue-generating programs.
- Partner with engineering, sales, and product teams to improve serviceability, field performance, and product reliability.
- Own the financial performance of the service function, including forecasting, budgeting, and margin management.
- Drive continuous improvement in tools, documentation, training, and field readiness.
- Support integration of newly acquired companies into Cognesense service standards, systems, and processes.
Qualifications:
- 7+ years in field service, service operations, technical support, or a similar customer-facing technical role.
- Direct experience managing field technicians and RMA/repair teams.
- Strong technical troubleshooting ability with instrumentation, industrial equipment, or IoT systems.
- Proven ability to operate with urgency and own customer outcomes.
- Demonstrated success transitioning service teams from reactive to structured, metrics-driven, and revenue-generating.
- Experience implementing service KPIs, dispatching systems, ticketing tools, and process improvements.
- Strong financial acumen related to service margins, utilization, service contracts, and pricing.
- A servant-leader personality—empathetic, accountable, customer-focused, and team-building.
Why Cognesense:
This is a high-impact role building the future of service across a rapidly expanding industrial and IoT platform. You will shape the entire service experience—field, repair, customer communication, and commercial growth—turning service into a strategic advantage and a profitable business arm of Cognesense.
Reporting To: General Manager
Location: Atlanta, GA or Chicago, IL [On-Site]
About the Role:
Cognesense is seeking a hands-on, highly technical Manager of Cybersecurity to architect, implement, and oversee cybersecurity across our multi-brand organization covering both commercial operations and all current defense programs. This leader will build a unified cybersecurity architecture spanning AWS environments, enterprise systems, manufacturing sites, and defense-related secure networks.
This is a builder role for someone excited by the opportunity to create and scale cybersecurity foundations across a buy-and-build platform with multiple legacy environments.
Key Responsibilities:
- Architect and manage a company-wide cybersecurity framework covering all commercial systems and all current defense programs.
- Lead security design, hardening, and monitoring of all AWS environments across the enterprise.
- Drive compliance readiness and ongoing adherence to CMMC, NIST 800-171, DFARS, and other defense cybersecurity requirements.
- Conduct cybersecurity due diligence and rapid remediation for acquired companies; develop integration playbooks.
- Strengthening IAM, network segmentation, endpoint protection, logging, incident response, and continuous monitoring.
- Oversee cybersecurity for manufacturing and operational technology (OT) environments.
- Serve as the primary cybersecurity interface for defense customers, auditors, and government partners.
- Build enterprise-wide cybersecurity policies, governance, training, and continuous improvement programs.
Qualifications:
- 7+ years in cybersecurity architecture, engineering, or security operations.
- Deep hands-on experience securing AWS environments.
- Demonstrated experience managing cybersecurity for defense programs (CMMC, NIST 800-171, DFARS).
- Strong technical understanding across IAM, networking, endpoint protection, monitoring/logging, incident response, and vulnerability management.
- Experience with cybersecurity in manufacturing or industrial/OT environments is a plus.
- Comfortable operating in a fast-paced private equity environment with multiple acquisitions.
- A servant-leader mindset with the ability to influence, coach, and build scalable security processes.
Why Cognesense:
This role defines the cybersecurity backbone for a rapidly expanding industrial and defense technology platform. You will directly shape the security posture across all commercial brands and defense programs, ensuring we scale securely, compliantly, and with resilience across the entire organization.
About the Role:
Varec, a wholly owned subsidiary of Cognesense, is seeking a Lead Test Engineer to join their team. This role involves automated and manual system testing to ensure the quality of delivered products. Varec specializes in providing integrated hardware and software solutions to the oil, gas, and defense markets. For more details, visit www.varec.com.
The Lead Test Engineer will be an integral part of Varec’s Agile Software Development Team, participating throughout the project lifecycle—from concept and design to development, testing, and post-production support. Responsibilities include leading a team testing new features, ensuring system performance under heavy load, verifying critical fixes for production environments, and engaging in regression efforts for major releases. Test Automation will be an essential part of this role, to seamlessly transition tests from manual to automated scripts.
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, IT, or a related field, with 8+ years of relevant experience.
- Experience with of Selenium UI test script development, Java, C#, cucumber reporting, SQL Server Database, Eclipse IDE.
- Experience with automation frameworks and shift-left testing methodologies. Experience leading a small team in test activities, including manual and performance testing.
- Proven ability to create and execute test plans effectively, ensuring product quality.
- Keen attention to detail, skilled at documenting system issues and managing them to resolution with a user-centric approach.
- Strong communication skills, with a willingness to participate in team retrospectives, standups, technical discussions, and other Agile ceremonies.
- Eagerness to continuously learn, expand product knowledge, and embrace new technologies to enhance testing processes.
- Proficient in both written and verbal communication for informal and group settings.
- Familiarity with performance testing methods and results analysis.
- Strong technical proficiency to assist in identifying and troubleshooting complex databases, software, and system issues.
- Ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously and willingness to adapt to changing team priorities.
- Self-motivated, capable of working in a fast-paced team environment, managing time effectively.
- Experience managing system allocations for test environments, including physical and virtual machines.
- Provides detailed estimates throughout the product lifecycle, from design to testing and release preparation.
- Collaborates with DevOps staff to ensure efficient deployments and maintain configuration management of all test systems.
- Experience working with Agile software development teams; familiarity with Agile ceremonies.
- Commitment to adhering to testing best practices and suggesting improvements.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in SCADA, liquid management, accounting systems and/or hardware interfaces.
- Proficiency in testing within Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) environments.
- Experience with Jira workflows and task management.
- Exposure to testing diverse system architectures.
- Experience/Working knowledge of Performance test tools and methodologies.
About the Role:
Varec, a wholly owned subsidiary of Cognesense, is looking for a Test Automation Engineer, who will be responsible for system and software testing ensuring quality of delivered products. Varec is a worldwide leader in fuels management systems for monitoring, controlling, supplying integrated hardware and software solutions to oil/gas, and defense markets. For more information, visit www.varec.com
The Test Automation Engineer will be an integrated part of Varec Development Agile Team, participating throughout the project lifecycle—from concept and design to development, testing, and post-production support. You will have the opportunity to plan and conduct testing of new features and participate in regression efforts prior to product delivery. Test Automation will be an essential part of this role, to seamlessly transition tests from manual to automated scripts.
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, IT, or related discipline with a minimum of 3 years relevant testing experience.
- Experience with Selenium UI test script development, Java, C#, cucumber reporting, SQL Server Database, Eclipse IDE.
- Experience with automation frameworks and shift-left testing methodologies.
- Proficiency in testing within Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) environments.
- Exposure to automated testing in diverse system architectures.
- Proficiency in software testing processes, including the evaluation of new features and system regression planning.
- Experience collaborating with Agile software development teams.
- Capability to assess enhancement requests and defects, providing accurate test estimates.
- Proven ability to support the creation of test plans and execute them effectively.
- Experience drafting test procedures and documenting outcomes.
- Keen attention to detail, skilled at identifying system issues and managing them to resolution.
- Eagerness to expand knowledge and embrace new technologies to enhance testing processes.
- Strong communication skills, with a willingness to engage in team retrospectives, standups, technical discussions, and other Agile ceremonies.
- Commitment to adhering to testing best practices and suggesting improvements.
- Ability to synthesize and manage test data efficiently.
- Self-motivated individual capable of working independently while effectively communicating with program teams and department leaders.
- Proficient in both written and verbal communication for informal one-on-one interactions or small group settings.
- Ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously and adapt to team priorities.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Familiarity with API based tests.
- Experience in SCADA, liquid management, accounting systems and/or hardware interfaces.
- Proficiency in testing within Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) environments.
- Experience with Jira workflows and task management.
If you are interested in applying, please email pshah@cognesense.com with a copy of your resume and confirming your interest for the role.