Cohere

Forward Deployed Engineer, Agentic Platform (UK Public Sector)

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2 months ago
London, United KingdomSenior

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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About Cohere

1,001-5,000 employees

Cohere builds large language models and an enterprise AI platform that companies use for search, summarization, and workflow automation, delivered via API or private deployments. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Toronto, it focuses on multilingual models, data controls, and options to run across major clouds or on-premises. The business is privately held and serves security- and compliance-sensitive organizations.

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