Cohere

Forward Deployed Engineer, Sovereign AI

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5 months ago
Ottawa, CanadaSenior
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Responsibilities

  • Build and ship features for North, Cohere’s AI workspace platform.
  • Develop autonomous agents that interact with sensitive enterprise data.
  • Experiment rapidly while maintaining a high level of quality to deliver solutions that exceed customer expectations.
  • Work across the full product lifecycle from conceptualization through production.
  • Lead end-to-end North deployments in private-cloud and on-premises environments, including planning, configuration, testing, and rollout.
  • Partner directly with public sector customers to understand their needs and implement secure AI solutions.

Requirements

  • Experience working directly with customers.
  • Experience shipping substantial Python code in production.
  • Experience building and deploying highly performant client-side or server-side RAG or agentic applications.
  • Strong coding abilities and comfort working across the stack, including diagnosing and fixing issues outside the primary codebase.
  • Ability to execute effectively in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities.
  • Ottawa or Toronto location required due to proximity to government customers.
  • Active Top Secret security clearance is strongly preferred; candidates eligible and willing to obtain clearance may also be considered.

Benefits

  • Weekly lunch stipend, in-office lunches, and snacks.
  • Full health and dental benefits, including a separate mental health budget.
  • 100% parental leave top-up for up to six months.
  • Personal enrichment benefits for arts and culture, fitness and well-being, quality time, and workspace improvement.
  • Remote-flexible work with offices in Toronto, New York, San Francisco, London, and Paris, plus a co-working stipend.
  • Six weeks of vacation, equivalent to 30 working days.
  • Ottawa or Toronto location required, with anticipated travel of 20–40%.

Tech Stack

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AI ApplicationsForward Deployed
Cohere

About Cohere

201-500 employees

Cohere is the leading security-first enterprise AI company. We build cutting-edge foundation models and end-to-end AI products designed to solve real-world business problems. We partner closely with companies to deliver seamless integration, full customization, and easy-to-use solutions for their workforce and customers. Our all-in-one platform offers enterprises the highest levels of data security, privacy and optionality to deploy across all major cloud providers, private cloud environments, or on-premises. HQ: 171 John Street, 2nd Floor, Toronto, ON M5T 1X3