Forward Deployed Engineer, Sovereign AI

About the role

Cohere, a security-first enterprise AI company, is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer for its Sovereign AI team in Ottawa. The team partners with Canadian public sector organisations to deploy secure, ethical generative AI solutions, working closely with public sector customers to understand their problems and build solutions with Cohere's stack. The role sits between the North product and clients' engineering teams, with 20-40% travel anticipated.

Key responsibilities

• Build and ship features for North, the AI workspace platform.
• Develop autonomous agents that access sensitive enterprise data.
• Experiment at high velocity and high quality to engage customers and deliver solutions.
• Work across the full product lifecycle, from concept to production.
• Lead end-to-end deployment of North in private cloud and on-premises environments, including planning, configuration, testing and rollout.

Required profile

• Experience working directly with customers.
• Experience shipping Python in production.
• Experience building and deploying high-performance client-side or server-side RAG or agentic applications.
• Strong coding ability, able to read and fix issues outside the main codebase.
• Comfortable in fast-paced environments with moving priorities.
• Eligibility for Active Top Secret security clearance; candidates willing to obtain it will also be considered.

What we offer

• Weekly lunch stipend of $75 or equivalent in local currency.
• Health and dental benefits, including a mental health budget.
• RRSP matching, 401K and pension scheme.
• Parental leave top-up of up to 6 months for either parent.
• Enrichment benefits, education and learning stipend, and 6 weeks of paid vacation.
• Travel budget to other offices and an annual company offsite.
• $500 home office stipend and a co-working benefit for those not near an office.