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Isak Hjortgren

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Director of Engineering at Kognic
📍 Greater Gothenburg Metropolitan Area, Sweden

Isak Hjortgren is the Director of Engineering at Kognic, specializing in machine learning and data science to enhance training data consistency. A graduate of Chalmers University of Technology, he has a track record of building cross-functional teams and is now transitioning towards full-time product management, shaping product direction and discovery.

Isak was awarded the SVEAB scholarship for exceptionally good academic results in mathematics.

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Experience
10 Years
Current Role
Director of Engineering
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
Greater Gothenburg Metropolitan Area, Sweden
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Priorities

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Data Curation
Focuses on creating consistent training data and has spoken on aligning application intent through datasets. He also writes about fully automated data curation pipelines.
Autonomous Systems
Actively follows trends in autonomous systems, noting the industry's shift toward end-to-end, vision-language-action models after attending the Auto AI conference.
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Career

Work history

3-2025
Director of Engineering
Kognic
1-2022 - 4-2025
Engineering & Product Manager
Kognic
3-2019 - 1-2022
Data scientist
Kognic
9-2016 - 12-2018
Software Test Developer
Infotiv
6-2015 - 9-2016
Greenkeeper
Lerjedalens drift AB
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Education
2017 - 2019
Master's degree
Chalmers University of Technology
2013 - 2019
Civilingenjörsexamen i Teknisk fysik
Chalmers University of Technology
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