Solutions Architect - Public Sector
Hybrid (Washington, DC)$215k - $250kFull-timePosted 8mo ago
About the role
Role focused on pre-sales and post-sales technical advisory for Cohere's Public Sector business, with autonomy in shaping solutions, building PoCs, and driving adoption of Cohere's NLP/AI platform. Requires security clearance.
Responsibilities
- Leading the technical talk track on customer calls.
- Deep dives on customer problems and Cohere technology.
- Designing novel enterprise solutions with bleeding-edge NLP technology.
- Facilitating customer evaluations and PoC’s.
- Developing and documenting processes to enable the solutions architect team to scale effectively within Cohere.
- Collaborating with the Product and Engineering teams to ensure our offering matches the customers’ needs.
- Working closely with our partners to develop a strategy for enabling and accelerating their customers.
Qualifications
- Must have: Security Clearance
- 5+ years of public sector customer-facing technical pre/post sales Solutions Architect (or similar) experience.
- 2+ years architecting or deploying NLP/AI/LLM Solutions.
- A passion for Generative AI, and an understanding of strengths and weaknesses of Generative LLM's and AI technologies.
- Comfortable working with Python and Jupyter Notebooks.
- Excellent communication skills - you can toggle seamlessly between presenting to CEOs, and getting in the weeds or white boarding with technical audiences.
- High tolerance for ambiguity.
- You can identify and implement high-impact processes in unstructured environments.
Skills
Required:Security ClearancePublic sector experienceNLP/AI/LLM solutionsGenerative AIPythonJupyter NotebooksCommunicationAmbiguity toleranceProcess improvement
Nice to have:Kubernetes (preferred)Networking (preferred)Authentication protocols (preferred)
Benefits
- A weekly lunch stipend of $75/£75 or equivalent in your local currency for lunch.
- Full health and dental benefits, including a separate budget for mental health.
- RRSP matching, 401K, Pension Scheme.
- 100% Parental Leave top-up for up to 6 months, for either parent.
- Annual enrichment benefits: Arts & culture, fitness/wellness, quality time, and a workspace improvement credit.
- Education & learning stipend for conferences, courses, and coaching.
- 6 weeks of paid vacation (30 working days)
- Budget for traveling to other offices if you are remote, plus an annual company offsite.
- Remote-friendly with office locations and a $500 home office stipend.
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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