Forward Deployed Engineer Sovereign AI
Toronto-founded enterprise AI company building foundation models, agentic AI, enterprise search, and private deployment products.
About Cohere
Cohere provides enterprise-focused AI models and end-to-end products, including North for agentic workplace AI, Compass for enterprise search, and models for generation and retrieval. It supports private, VPC, and on-premises deployment options.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will work directly with public-sector customers to understand problems and implement AI solutions. You will build North features and autonomous agents, deliver deployments in private-cloud and on-premises environments, and support planning, configuration, testing, and rollout.
Requirements
- Customer-facing engineering experience
- Python
- RAG application development
- Agentic application development
- Full-stack development
- Canadian Top Secret security-clearance eligibility
- Willingness to obtain security clearance
- 20–40% travel
Responsibilities
- Build and ship AI workspace features
- Develop autonomous agents for sensitive enterprise data
- Work across the product lifecycle from conceptualization through production
- Lead private-cloud and on-premises deployments
- Plan, configure, test, and roll out deployments
- Work directly with public-sector customers
Benefits
- Weekly lunch stipend of $75/£75 or local equivalent
- Health and dental benefits
- Mental health budget
- RRSP matching
- 401K
- Pension Scheme
- Parental leave top-up for up to six months
- Arts and culture benefit
- Fitness and wellness benefit
- Workspace improvement credit
- Education and learning stipend
- Six weeks of paid vacation
- Remote-office travel budget
- Annual company offsite
- Co-working benefit
- $500 home office stipend