Cohere is a leading security-first enterprise AI company building foundation AI models and products to solve real-world business problems. The Forward Deployed Engineer role focuses on designing and deploying agentic workflows powered by Large Language Models for enterprise customers.

Company: Cohere

Role: Forward Deployed Engineer, Agentic Platform (West Coast)

Location: San Francisco; Los Angeles; Phoenix; Salt Lake City; Seattle; Vancouver; Remote

Experience:

Hands-on experience building and deploying production-grade software in Python
Experience building and deploying highly performant RAG and agentic applications
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

Key Skills:

Python
Large Language Models (LLMs)
RAG applications
Agentic applications
ReAct pattern
Plan-and-Execute pattern
Vector databases
Orchestration frameworks
Evaluation frameworks for agent accuracy, safety, and latency

Role Focus:

Translate high-value, ambiguous business problems into well-framed agentic workflows with clear success criteria
Lead design, build, and delivery of LLM-powered agents that reason, plan, and act across tools, APIs, and sensitive enterprise data
Build and ship features for North AI workspace platform across full product lifecycle
Own scoping and shaping use cases end-to-end, including frontend when needed
Contribute to shared frameworks and patterns for consistent delivery
Drive clarity, build alignment, and raise engineering quality across the organization

Additional responsibilities:

Travel up to 20–40% to work on-site with customers and partners

Nice to have:

Experience setting architectural standards for AI and agentic systems across distributed teams
Experience flexing into unfamiliar technical areas such as frontend
Exposure to regulated or sensitive industry environments like finance, healthcare, telecoms
Experience with enterprise security, compliance, or auditability requirements for AI systems

Other:

Cohere is a global technology company with offices in Toronto, San Francisco, London, New York City, Montreal, Seoul, Germany, and Paris
Full-time employment
Department: Modeling, Applied-ML
Cohere is remote-friendly with co-working benefits and home office stipend
Perks include weekly lunch stipend, full health and dental benefits, mental health budget, RRSP matching, 401K, pension scheme, parental leave top-up, annual enrichment benefits, education stipend, 6 weeks paid vacation, travel budget for remote employees, and annual company offsite
Inclusive work environment with accommodations available during recruitment
Use of AI-enabled tools in applicant screening

Forward Deployed Engineer, Agentic Platform (West Coast)

Skills Required

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