Forward Deployed Engineer, Agentic Platform (West Coast)

About this role

Cohere seeks a Forward Deployed Engineer to design and deliver production-grade LLM-powered agentic workflows for enterprise customers. You'll bridge our North AI platform with client engineering teams, solving complex problems in regulated industries while traveling 20-40% to work on-site with customers.

What you'll do

• Translate enterprise business problems into well-scoped agentic workflows with clear success metrics
• Lead design, build, and deployment of LLM-powered agents that integrate with tools, APIs, and enterprise data sources
• Develop features for North platform across the full product lifecycle from conception to production
• Own end-to-end use case scoping and shape solutions flexing into frontend or other technical areas as needed
• Build evaluation frameworks to measure agent accuracy, safety, and latency beyond trial-and-error approaches
• Travel on-site with customers and establish engineering quality standards across teams

What they're looking for

• Production Python development with clean, testable, observable code
• RAG and agentic application design and deployment
• LLM stack knowledge (frontier models, vector databases, orchestration frameworks)
• Enterprise customer engagement and technical stakeholder communication
• Evaluation framework design for AI systems
• Full-stack problem ownership
• Experience in regulated industries (finance, healthcare, telecoms)
• Enterprise security and compliance familiarity

Benefits

• Shape how enterprises deploy AI in real-world applications
• Work on cutting-edge agentic AI platforms
• Global presence across Toronto, San Francisco, London, NYC, Montreal, Seoul, Germany, and Paris
• Fast-paced startup environment with enterprise-grade standards
• Opportunity to establish architectural standards for AI systems