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Forward Deployed Engineer, Agentic Platform (UK Public Sector)

Cohere· Engineering & Infra
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RemoteFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Software Engineer role focused on designing, building, and deploying LLM-powered agentic workflows for North, Cohere’s AI workspace platform, in collaboration with enterprise customers in highly regulated sectors. Travel 20–40% to work on-site with customers; UK-based with remote work option.

Responsibilities

  • Work closely with 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, Cohere's AI workspace platform, across the full product lifecycle from conceptualisation through production
  • Take ownership of scoping and shaping use cases end-to-end, flexing into frontend and other areas to drive effective solutions
  • Contribute to shared frameworks and patterns that enable consistent, high-quality delivery across customers and teams
  • Drive clarity in ambiguous situations, alignment, and raise engineering quality across the organization
  • Travel up to 20–40% to work on-site with customers and partners
  • Work with customers to lead technical discussions and translate business needs into concrete technical specs
  • Own the full scope of a use case end-to-end

Qualifications

  • Hands-on experience building and deploying production-grade software in Python; clean, testable, observable, scalable code
  • Experience building and deploying high-performing RAG and agentic applications with multi-step task planning (e.g., ReAct or Plan-and-Execute)
  • Deep familiarity with the LLM stack: frontier models, vector databases, orchestration frameworks
  • Proven ability to build robust evaluation frameworks measuring agent accuracy, safety, and latency
  • Experience working directly with customers and leading technical discussions with enterprise stakeholders
  • 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 and agentic systemsRAG and agentic applicationsCustomer engagement

Benefits

  • Weekly lunch stipend of $75/£75 or local equivalent
  • Full health and dental benefits, including mental health budget
  • RRSP matching, 401K, Pension Scheme
  • 100% Parental Leave top-up for up to 6 months
  • Annual enrichment benefits (arts & culture, fitness, workspace improvement, etc.)
  • Education & learning stipend for conferences, courses, coaching
  • 6 weeks of paid vacation (30 working days)
  • Budget for traveling to other offices and annual company offsite
  • $500 home office stipend
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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