Forward Deployed Engineering, Tech Lead

Who are we?

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!

Why This Role

This role offers a rare opportunity to shape how enterprises securely harness the power of AI in mission-critical environments. Acting as the bridge between our North platform and enterprise engineering teams, you’ll guide a talented group of engineers to deliver cutting-edge, scalable agentic AI solutions to clients in sectors like finance, healthcare, and telecommunications. Our customers include global leaders such as RBC, Dell, and LG CNS.

We are looking for a Tech Lead who can dive deep technically when needed, ensuring smooth deployments in complex private cloud and on-prem environments, and driving innovation in how we build, ship, and maintain agentic systems that safely interact with enterprise data.

In this role, you will

• Lead a team of engineers across backend, infrastructure, and agent development disciplines on client facing projects

• Own the end-to-end Agent & Tool rollout with clients, including planning, configuration, testing, & end user rollout

• Deliver agentic applications that safely interface with sensitive enterprise data.

• Interface with the core platform engineering teams, contributing code & tests back to our core North platform as needed for your client

• Collaborate cross-functionally with product, research, and customer success teams to ensure deployments align with both client needs and product direction.

• Troubleshoot & root cause customer issues with their instance of the North platform

You may be a good fit if you:

• Have strong experience leading engineering teams, setting direction, and building technical culture

• Have shipped production-grade Python and are comfortable working across the stack

• Have deep experience deploying enterprise software in private or hybrid cloud environments.

• Are familiar working with applications deployed on Kubernetes

• Are customer-obsessed, comfortable engaging directly with enterprise partners to diagnose issues and co-design solutions.

• You excel in fast-paced environments and can execute while priorities and objectives are a moving target

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

We value and celebrate diversity and strive to create an inclusive work environment for all. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and are committed to providing equal opportunities. Should you require any accommodations during the recruitment process, please submit an Accommodations Request Form, and we will work together to meet your needs.

Full-Time Employees at Cohere enjoy these Perks:

🤝 An open and inclusive culture and work environment

🧑‍💻 Work closely with a team on the cutting edge of AI research

🍽 Weekly lunch stipend, in-office lunches & snacks

🦷 Full health and dental benefits, including a separate budget to take care of your mental health

🐣 100% Parental Leave top-up for up to 6 months

🎨 Personal enrichment benefits towards arts and culture, fitness and well-being, quality time, and workspace improvement

🏙 Remote-flexible, offices in Toronto, New York, San Francisco, London and Paris, as well as a co-working stipend

✈️ 6 weeks of vacation (30 working days!)