[Remote] Forward Deployed Engineer, Agentic Platform
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Cohere is a security-first enterprise AI company building foundation models and end-to-end products for real-world business problems. The Forward Deployed Engineer will design, build, and deploy reliable LLM-powered agents and agentic workflows for enterprise customers, integrating tools, APIs, and sensitive data sources. The role also involves building North platform features, shaping use cases end-to-end, collaborating with customers, and traveling up to 20–40%.
Responsibilities
- Work closely with our enterprise customers to translate high-value, ambiguous business problems into well-framed agentic workflows with clear success criteria and evaluation methodologies
- Lead the design, build, and delivery of LLM-powered agents that reason, plan, and act across tools, APIs, and sensitive enterprise data sources, with enterprise-grade reliability and performance
- Build and ship features for North, our AI workspace platform, working across the full product lifecycle from conceptualization through production
- Take ownership of scoping and shaping use cases end-to-end, flexing into whatever technical area the problem demands (including frontend) to drive the most effective solution
- Contribute to shared frameworks and patterns that enable consistent, high-quality delivery across customers and teams
- Drive clarity in ambiguous situations, build alignment, and raise engineering quality across the organization
- Travel up to 20–40% to work on-site with customers and partners
Skills
- •Note: between 20 - 40% travel anticipated.•
- • You have hands-on experience building and deploying production-grade software in Python; you write clean, testable, observable, scalable code
- • You've built and deployed highly performant RAG and agentic applications, including agents that plan and execute multi-step tasks using patterns like ReAct or Plan-and-Execute
- • You're deeply familiar with the LLM stack: frontier models, vector databases, and orchestration frameworks
- • You have a proven ability to build robust evaluation frameworks, moving well beyond trial and error, to measure agent accuracy, safety, and latency
- • You're experienced working directly with customers and can lead technical discussions with enterprise stakeholders, translating ambiguous business needs into concrete technical specs
- • You have experience owning the full scope of a use case end-to-end
- • You thrive in fast-paced and ambiguous environments and can execute well even when priorities are shifting
- • Experience setting architectural standards for AI and agentic systems across distributed teams
- • Experience flexing into unfamiliar technical areas, such as frontend, when the problem calls for it
- • Exposure to regulated or sensitive industry environments (finance, healthcare, telecoms)
- • Experience with enterprise security, compliance, or auditability requirements for AI systems
Benefits
- A weekly lunch stipend of $75/£75 or equivalent in your local currency for lunch.
- Full health and dental benefits, including a separate budget for mental health.
- RRSP matching, 401K, Pension Scheme.
- 100% Parental Leave top-up for up to 6 months, for either parent.
- Annual enrichment benefits: Arts & culture, fitness/wellness, quality time, and a workspace improvement credit.
- Education & learning stipend for conferences, courses, and coaching.
- 6 weeks of paid vacation (30 working days!).
- Budget for traveling to other offices if you are remote, plus an annual company offsite.
- Cohere is remote-friendly.
- For those in the office: a daily lunch program, plenty of snacks, and regular community and social events.
- For those not near an office: a co-working benefit so you can work alongside others in your city.
- Everyone receives a $500 home office stipend to set up your workspace properly.
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