Forward Deployed Engineer, Infrastructure Specialist

Cohere Cohere · AI Frontier · Japan · Agentic Platform

This role focuses on the end-to-end deployment of Cohere's North AI workspace platform in private cloud and on-premises environments for enterprise clients. The Forward Deployed Engineer will partner with client IT teams to assess infrastructure, design deployment strategies, and troubleshoot technical issues, ensuring secure and compliant integration of AI into sectors like finance, healthcare, and telecommunications.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead end-to-end deployment of North in private cloud and on-premises environments, including planning, configuration, testing, and rollout.
  2. Partner with enterprise IT teams to assess infrastructure, security requirements, and data management practices.
  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. Design and implement deployment strategies tailored to client needs, ensuring compliance with data privacy and security standards.
  5. Troubleshoot and resolve deployment-related technical issues, providing timely solutions to minimize downtime.

Skills

Required

  • experience with and enjoy working directly with customers
  • experience deploying enterprise software in private/hybrid cloud environments
  • proven experience administering production Kubernetes clusters
  • expertise with Helm
  • familiarity with DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and tools like Git for version control
  • strong expertise in cloud infrastructure (Azure, AWS, GCP), networking, and virtualization
  • excel in fast-paced environments and can execute while priorities and objectives are a moving target

Nice to have

  • AI systems
  • RAG
  • agents

What the JD emphasized

  • deployment of North in private cloud and on-premises environments
  • partner with enterprise IT teams
  • design and implement deployment strategies
  • troubleshoot and resolve deployment-related technical issues

Other signals

  • deployment of North in private cloud and on-premises environments
  • partner with enterprise IT teams to assess infrastructure, security requirements, and data management practices
  • design and implement deployment strategies tailored to client needs
  • troubleshoot and resolve deployment-related technical issues