Solutions Architect Public Sector
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
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About the Role
You will lead technical customer engagements and build proof of concepts that demonstrate platform value. You will map customer problems to solutions, own technical relationships, facilitate evaluations, develop scalable processes, collaborate with product and engineering, and work with partners to enable customer adoption.
Requirements
- Security Clearance
- 5+ years of public-sector customer-facing technical pre- or post-sales Solutions Architect or similar experience
- 2+ years architecting or deploying NLP, AI, or LLM solutions
- Understanding of generative AI and LLM strengths and weaknesses
- Experience working with Python and Jupyter Notebooks
Responsibilities
- Lead technical customer conversations
- Investigate customer problems and demonstrate AI technology
- Design enterprise solutions using NLP technology
- Build customer proof of concepts
- Facilitate customer evaluations and proof of concepts
- Develop and document scalable processes
- Collaborate with Product and Engineering on customer needs
- Work with partners to enable and accelerate customers
- Own technical stakeholder relationships
- Translate business objectives into technical solutions
- Provide product best-practice guidance and gather customer feedback
Benefits
- Weekly lunch stipend of $75/£75 or local equivalent
- Health and dental benefits
- Mental health budget
- RRSP matching, 401K, and pension scheme
- Parental leave top-up for up to six months
- Arts, culture, fitness, wellness, quality-time, and workspace-improvement benefits
- Education and learning stipend
- Six weeks of paid vacation
- Travel budget for other offices and an annual company offsite
- Co-working benefit
- $500 home-office stipend