Forward Deployed Engineer, Agentic Platform

Cohere Cohere · AI Frontier · Toronto, ON · Agentic Platform

Cohere is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to build and ship features for their AI workspace platform, North. This role involves developing autonomous agents that interact with sensitive enterprise data and leading the end-to-end deployment of the platform in private cloud and on-premises environments. The position requires strong Python development experience, comfort working across the stack, and the ability to execute in fast-paced, customer-facing environments.

What you'd actually do

  1. Build and ship features for North, our AI workspace platform
  2. Develop autonomous agents that talk to sensitive enterprise data
  3. Experiment at a high velocity and with a high level of quality to engage our customers and ultimately deliver solutions that exceed their expectations
  4. Work across the entire product lifecycle from conceptualization through production
  5. Lead end-to-end deployment of North in private cloud and on-premises environments, including planning, configuration, testing, and rollout

Skills

Required

  • Python
  • experience with and enjoy working directly with customers
  • built and deployed highly performant client-side or server-side RAG/agentic applications
  • strong coding abilities and are comfortable working across the stack
  • able to read and understand, and even fix issues outside of the main code base
  • excel in fast-paced environments and can execute while priorities and objectives are a moving target

Nice to have

  • backend
  • infrastructure
  • agent development
  • deployments

What the JD emphasized

  • built and deployed highly performant client-side or server-side RAG/agentic applications
  • strong coding abilities and are comfortable working across the stack
  • excel in fast-paced environments and can execute while priorities and objectives are a moving target

Other signals

  • building and shipping features for an AI workspace platform
  • developing autonomous agents that talk to sensitive enterprise data
  • leading end-to-end deployment of North in private cloud and on-premises environments