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Forward Deployed Engineer, Agentic Platform

Cohere· Engineering & Infra
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Hybrid (Middle East), Hybrid (Dubai), Hybrid (United Arab Emirates), Hybrid (Saudi Arabia), Hybrid (Riyadh)Full-timePosted 7mo ago

About the role

Software Engineer role focused on designing, building, and deploying LLM-powered agent workflows for enterprise customers, bridging Cohere’s North platform with client engineering teams, with travel to customer sites.

Responsibilities

  • Work closely with our enterprise customers to translate high-value, ambiguous business problems into well-framed agentic workflows with clear success criteria and evaluation methodologies
  • Lead the design, build, and delivery of LLM-powered agents that reason, plan, and act across tools, APIs, and sensitive enterprise data sources, with enterprise-grade reliability and performance
  • Build and ship features for North, our AI workspace platform, working across the full product lifecycle from conceptualisation through production
  • Take ownership of scoping and shaping use cases end-to-end, flexing into whatever technical area the problem demands (including frontend) to drive the most effective solution
  • Contribute to shared frameworks and patterns that enable consistent, high-quality delivery across customers and teams
  • Drive clarity in ambiguous situations, build alignment, and raise engineering quality across the organization
  • Travel up to 20–40% to work on-site with customers and partners

Qualifications

  • Hands-on experience building and deploying production-grade software in Python; writing clean, testable, observable, scalable code
  • Experience building and deploying highly performant RAG and agentic applications, including agents that plan and execute multi-step tasks using patterns like ReAct or Plan-and-Execute
  • Deep familiarity with the LLM stack: frontier models, vector databases, and orchestration frameworks
  • Proven ability to build robust evaluation frameworks to measure agent accuracy, safety, and latency
  • Experience working directly with customers and leading technical discussions with enterprise stakeholders, translating ambiguous business needs into concrete technical specs
  • Experience owning the full scope of a use case end-to-end
  • Ability to thrive in fast-paced and ambiguous environments with shifting priorities

Skills

Required:PythonLLM/Agentic Development
Nice to have:Frontend (optional as needed)

Benefits

  • A weekly lunch stipend of $75/£75 or equivalent in local currency
  • 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
  • Annual enrichment benefits (arts & culture, fitness/wellness, workspace improvements)
  • Education & learning stipend for conferences, courses, coaching
  • 6 weeks of paid vacation (30 working days)
  • Budget for traveling to other offices if remote, plus annual company offsite
  • $500 home office stipend
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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