Forward Deployed Engineer, Sovereign AI

About the Role

• Our mission is to scale intelligence to serve humanity. We’re training and deploying frontier models for developers and enterprises who are building AI systems to power magical experiences like content generation, semantic search, RAG, and agents. We believe that our work is instrumental to the widespread adoption of AI.
• We obsess over what we build. Each one of us is responsible for contributing to increasing the capabilities of our models and the value they drive for our customers. We like to work hard and move fast to do what’s best for our customers.
• Cohere is a team of researchers, engineers, designers, and more, who are passionate about their craft. Each person is one of the best in the world at what they do. We believe that a diverse range of perspectives is a requirement for building great products.
• Join us on our mission and shape the future!
• North is Cohere's cutting-edge AI workspace platform, designed to revolutionize the way enterprises utilize AI. It offers a secure and customizable environment, allowing companies to deploy AI while maintaining control over sensitive data. North integrates seamlessly with existing workflows, providing a trusted platform that connects AI agents with workplace tools and applications.
• Cohere’s team partners with Canadian public sector organisations to unlock transformative value through secure, ethical deployment of Generative AI (GenAI) solutions. We work collaboratively to address complex societal challenges while maintaining the highest standards of data security and compliance. You will work directly with public sector customers to quickly understand their greatest problems and design and implement solutions using Cohere's stack.
• This role offers a unique opportunity to shape how enterprises harness the power of AI in real-world applications. As a bridge between our core North product and our clients’ engineering teams, you’ll be at the forefront of solving complex problems and securely integrating AI into critical sectors. We are seeking engineers with diverse skill sets, including backend, infrastructure, agent development, and deployments, who deeply care about customers and want to work at the cutting edge of Agentic AI.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship features for North, our AI workspace platform
• Develop autonomous agents that talk to sensitive enterprise data
• Experiment at a high velocity and with a high level of quality to engage our customers and ultimately deliver solutions that exceed their expectations
• Work across the entire product lifecycle from conceptualization through production
• Lead end-to-end deployment of North in private cloud and on-premises environments, including planning, configuration, testing, and rollout

Requirements

• You have experience with and enjoy working directly with customers
• You have shipped (lots of) Python in production
• You have built and deployed highly performant client-side or server-side RAG/agentic applications
• You have strong coding abilities and are comfortable working across the stack. You’re able to read and understand, and even fix issues outside of the main code base
• You excel in fast-paced environments and can execute while priorities and objectives are a moving target
• Location: Ottawa or Toronto required (proximity to government customers), 20-40% travel anticipated.
• Security Clearance: Active Top Secret clearance strongly preferred; candidates eligible and willing to obtain clearance will also be considered.

Qualifications

If some of the above doesn’t line up perfectly with your experience, we still encourage you to apply!