Forward Deployed Engineer, Agentic Platform
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About the Role
Cohere is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to design, build, and deploy agentic workflows powered by LLMs for enterprise customers. You will work closely with clients to translate business problems into AI solutions, building production-grade agents that integrate with tools, APIs, and data sources.
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Responsibilities
- Work closely with enterprise customers to translate ambiguous business problems into well framed agentic workflows with clear success criteria
- Lead the design, build, and delivery of LLM powered agents that reason, plan, and act across tools, APIs, and sensitive enterprise data sources
- Build and ship features for North, the AI workspace platform, across the full product lifecycle
- Take ownership of scoping and shaping use cases end to end, flexing into frontend when needed
- Contribute to shared frameworks and patterns for consistent, high quality delivery across customers and teams
- Drive clarity in ambiguous situations and raise engineering quality across the organization
- Travel up to 20–40% to work on site with customers and partners
Requirements
- Hands on experience building and deploying production grade software in Python
- Experience building and deploying RAG and agentic applications (e.g., ReAct, Plan and Execute)
- Deep familiarity with LLM stack: frontier models, vector databases, orchestration frameworks
- Proven ability to build robust evaluation frameworks for agent accuracy, safety, and latency
- Experience working directly with customers and leading technical discussions with enterprise stakeholders
- Experience owning the full scope of a use case end to end
- Ability to thrive in fast paced and ambiguous environments
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About Cohere and North
- Cohere is a security first enterprise AI company building foundation AI models and end to end products.
- North is Cohere's AI workspace platform for secure, customizable enterprise AI deployment.
- This role bridges the core North product and clients' engineering teams, integrating AI into finance, healthcare, and telecommunications.
In This Role, You Will
- Work closely with enterprise customers to translate ambiguous business problems into agentic workflows with clear success criteria.
- Lead design, build, and delivery of LLM powered agents that reason, plan, and act across tools, APIs, and enterprise data sources.
- Build and ship features for North across the full product lifecycle.
- Take ownership of scoping and shaping use cases end to end, including frontend when needed.
- Contribute to shared frameworks and patterns for consistent delivery.
- Drive clarity in ambiguous situations and raise engineering quality.
- Travel up to 20–40% to work on site with customers and partners.
You May Be a Good Fit If
- Hands on experience building production grade software in Python.
- Experience building and deploying RAG and agentic applications (ReAct, Plan and Execute).
- Deep familiarity with LLM stack: frontier models, vector databases, orchestration frameworks.
- Proven ability to build robust evaluation frameworks for agent accuracy, safety, and latency.
- Experience working directly with customers and leading technical discussions.
- Experience owning full scope of a use case end to end.
- Thrive in fast paced, ambiguous environments.
Bonus Qualifications
- Experience setting architectural standards for AI and agentic systems across distributed teams.
- Experience flexing into unfamiliar technical areas like frontend.
- Exposure to regulated industries (finance, healthcare, telecoms).
- Experience with enterprise security, compliance, or auditability for AI systems.
Perks
- Weekly lunch stipend of CAD 75/£75 or equivalent.
- Full health and dental benefits including mental health budget.
- RRSP matching, 401K, Pension Scheme.
- 100% Parental Leave top up for up to 6 months.
- Annual enrichment benefits for arts, fitness, quality time, workspace improvement.
- Education & learning stipend for conferences, courses, coaching.
- 6 weeks paid vacation.
- Budget for travel to other offices and annual company offsite.
How and Where We Work
- Cohere is remote friendly with offices in Toronto, San Francisco, New York City, London, Paris, Montreal, and more.
- Daily lunch program, snacks, and social events for office based employees.
- Co working benefit for those not near an office.
- CAD 500 home office stipend.
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