Cohere

Forward Deployed Engineer, Agentic Platform (UK Public Sector)

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4 hours ago
London, United KingdomSenior
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Responsibilities

  • Translate ambiguous enterprise business problems into agentic workflows with clear success criteria and evaluation methodologies.
  • Design, build, deploy, and deliver reliable LLM-powered agents that reason, plan, and act across tools, APIs, and sensitive enterprise data.
  • Build and ship features for Cohere’s North AI workspace platform across the full product lifecycle.
  • Own use-case scoping and delivery end to end, including frontend work when needed.
  • Contribute shared frameworks and patterns for consistent delivery across customers and teams.
  • Drive alignment, clarify ambiguous situations, and raise engineering quality across the organization.
  • Travel 20–40% to work onsite with customers and partners.

Requirements

  • Hands-on experience building and deploying production-grade software in Python with clean, testable, observable, and scalable code.
  • Experience building and deploying performant RAG and agentic applications, including multi-step planning and execution patterns such as ReAct or Plan-and-Execute.
  • Deep familiarity with the LLM stack, frontier models, vector databases, and orchestration frameworks.
  • Experience building robust evaluation frameworks to measure agent accuracy, safety, and latency.
  • Ability to lead technical discussions with enterprise stakeholders and translate ambiguous business needs into concrete technical specifications.
  • Experience owning the full scope of a technical use case end to end.
  • Experience setting architectural standards for AI and agentic systems across distributed teams is a bonus.
  • Experience working in unfamiliar technical areas such as frontend development is a bonus.
  • Exposure to regulated or sensitive industries such as finance, healthcare, or telecommunications is a bonus.
  • Experience with enterprise security, compliance, or auditability requirements for AI systems is a bonus.
  • Active DV clearance is highly preferred.

Benefits

  • Weekly lunch stipend of $75/£75 or equivalent in local currency.
  • Full health and dental benefits, including a separate mental health budget.
  • RRSP matching, 401K, or Pension Scheme.
  • 100% parental leave top-up for up to six months for either parent.
  • Annual enrichment benefits covering arts and culture, fitness and wellness, quality time, and workspace improvement.
  • Education and learning stipend for conferences, courses, and coaching.
  • Six weeks of paid vacation, or 30 working days.
  • Travel budget for remote employees to visit other offices and an annual company offsite.
  • Remote-friendly work arrangement with offices in Toronto, London, New York City, San Francisco, Montreal, Paris, Berlin, and Seoul.
  • Co-working benefit for employees not near an office, plus a $500 home office stipend.
  • Office employees receive a daily lunch program, snacks, and community and social events.
  • UK location and travel of 20–40% to customer and partner sites.

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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