Justin Lawyer

Head of Atlas AI at Cognite | ex-Google, TruEra | Industrial AI & Knowledge Graphs | Angel, Advisor| Hiring: AI Architects, Engineers, Managers in Phoenix

Role
Head of Atlas Ai at Cognite
Location
Menlo Park, CA, US
LinkedIn followers
500 followers

About Justin Lawyer

WE\'RE HIRING!** Aggressively expanding our Atlas AI team in Phoenix: AI Architects, Principal Full Stack Engineers, Senior AI Platform Engineers, Senior Frontend Engineers, Engineering Managers, ML Engineers, Agent Engineers. Remote exceptions for exceptional talent.High-impact business and product leader with twenty+ years leading products, applying cutting edge ML/AI to products and production systems, and taking solutions to market. Experience includes:• Leading AI transformation in industrial operations.• Launched TruEra’s AI/LLM observability platform, including monitoring, testing, model debugging, and error root cause analysis.• Built team of 6 machine learning PMs for the Cloud AI Platform (Notebooks, AI platform, Kubeflow pipelines, AI Hub).• Acquired, integrated e-commerce startup into Wallet. • Built Google’s ML-based real time payment fraud & abuse prevention system, saving >$400M in fraud annually, managing a team of ~ 30 FTEs, protecting 50 products.• Built out and unified Google’s payment platform serving over $115B in revenue across Google, serving ~50 paid Google products.• Acquired, integrated an eCommerce startup into Google Wallet.• Started career as AI/machine learning data scientist doing research, then productizing and taking those to market.

Experience

  1. Head of Atlas Ai

    Cognite

    Oct 2025 — Present · Menlo Park, CA, US

    Leading AI product strategy and development for Atlas AI, Cognite\'s industrial AI platform. • Building AI-native experiences for plant floor workers across oil & gas, chemical, pharmaceutical, and manufacturing operations• Developing industrial AI agents for troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and operations optimization • Utilizes industrial-grade knowledge graphs, data fusion to make industrial data impactful.• Focused on making industrial workers 10x more effective through contextualized AI workflows and proactive monitoringKey initiatives: Industrial data fusion at scale, agentic troubleshooting workflows, collaborative intelligence systems.

Education

  • UC San Diego

    MS, Electrical Engineering

    1991 — 1994

  • Caltech

    BS, Physics, Literature

    1987 — 1994

  • The University of Chicago Booth School of Business

    Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.)

    2001 — 2003

Skills

  • Management
  • Product Management
  • Mobile Devices
  • Strategy

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