Forward Deployed Engineer, Agentic Platform (West Coast)

Stack

Responsibilities

• ▹Work closely with 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, Cohere's AI workspace platform, working across the full product lifecycle from conceptualisation through production
• ▹Take ownership of scoping and shaping use cases end-to-end, flexing into whatever technical area the problem demands (including frontend)
• ▹Contribute to shared frameworks and patterns that enable 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; writing clean, testable, observable, scalable code
• ▹Experience building and deploying highly performant RAG and agentic applications, including agents that plan and execute multi-step tasks using patterns like ReAct or Plan-and-Execute
• ▹Deep familiarity with the LLM stack: frontier models, vector databases and orchestration frameworks
• ▹Proven ability to build robust evaluation frameworks to measure 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
• ▹Thrives in fast-paced and ambiguous environments and can execute well even when priorities are shifting

Nice to have

• ▹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

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Weekly lunch stipend ($75/£75 or equivalent in local currency)
• ▹Full health and dental benefits, including a separate mental health budget
• ▹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, workspace improvement)
• ▹Education and learning stipend for conferences and courses
• ▹6 weeks of paid vacation (30 working days)
• ▹Travel budget to other offices for remote employees, plus an annual company offsite
• ▹$500 home office stipend

About the company

Cohere is a leading security-first enterprise AI company building cutting-edge foundation AI models and end-to-end products that solve real-world business problems. North is Cohere's cutting-edge AI workspace platform, offering a secure and customizable environment for enterprises to deploy AI while integrating with existing workflows. The team spans researchers, engineers and designers, co-headquartered in Toronto and San Francisco, with offices in London, New York City, Montreal, Seoul, Germany and Paris.