Forward Deployed Engineer, Agentic Platform (West Coast)
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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 production-grade AI agents, integrating 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 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, including frontend when needed
- Contribute to shared frameworks and patterns for consistent, high quality delivery across customers and teams
- 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)
- Familiarity with LLM stack: frontier models, vector databases, orchestration frameworks
- 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
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About Cohere and North
- Cohere is a security first enterprise AI company building foundation models and end to end products.
- North is Cohere's AI workspace platform for secure, customizable enterprise AI deployment.
In This Role, You Will
- Work closely with enterprise customers to translate ambiguous business problems into agentic workflows.
- Lead design, build, and delivery of LLM powered agents with enterprise grade reliability.
- Build and ship features for North across the full product lifecycle.
- Take ownership of scoping and shaping use cases end to end.
- Contribute to shared frameworks and patterns for consistent delivery.
- Travel up to 20 40% to work on site with customers.
You May Be a Good Fit If
- Hands on experience building production grade software in Python.
- Experience building and deploying RAG and agentic applications.
- Familiarity with LLM stack: frontier models, vector databases, orchestration frameworks.
- Ability to build robust evaluation frameworks.
- Experience working directly with customers.
- Experience owning full scope of a use case end to end.
Bonus Qualifications
- Experience setting architectural standards for AI and agentic systems.
- Experience in frontend or unfamiliar technical areas.
- Exposure to regulated industries (finance, healthcare, telecoms).
- Experience with enterprise security, compliance, or auditability for AI systems.
Perks
- Weekly lunch stipend.
- Full health and dental benefits with 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.
- Education and learning stipend.
- 6 weeks paid vacation.
- Budget for travel to other offices and annual company offsite.
How and Where We Work
- Remote friendly with offices in Toronto, San Francisco, New York City, London, Paris, Montreal, and more.
- Daily lunch program, snacks, and community events for office employees.
- Co working benefit for those not near an office.
- CAD 500 home office stipend.
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