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# Forward Deployed Engineer, Agentic Platform (UK Public Sector) at Cohere

- **Company:** [Cohere](https://feeny.ai/companies/cohere)
- **Location:** United Kingdom
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-08-24
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/cohere/691982e3-9357-42e4-b4c3-a65cae906935

## Job description

Who are we?

Cohere is the leading security-first enterprise AI company. We build cutting-edge foundation AI models and end-to-end products that are designed to solve real-world business problems.

We’re training and deploying frontier models for enterprises who are building AI systems. We believe that our work is instrumental to the widespread adoption of AI and we are looking for folks that want to be part of that.

We obsess over what we build. Each one of us is responsible for contributing to increasing the capabilities of our models and the value they drive for our customers. Cohere is a team of researchers, engineers, designers, and more, who are all passionate about their craft.

We are a global technology company headquartered in Toronto with key offices in London, New York City, San Francisco, Montreal, Paris, Berlin and Seoul. Join us!

## ABOUT NORTH:

North https://cohere.com/north is Cohere's cutting-edge AI workspace platform, designed to revolutionize the way enterprises utilize AI. It offers a secure and customizable environment, allowing companies to deploy AI while maintaining control over sensitive data. North integrates seamlessly with existing workflows, providing a trusted platform that connects AI agents with workplace tools and applications.

WHY THIS ROLE?

This role offers a unique opportunity to shape how enterprises harness the power of AI in real-world applications. As a bridge between our core North product and our clients’ engineering teams, you’ll be at the forefront of solving complex problems and securely integrating AI into critical sectors such as finance, healthcare, and telecommunications.

We’re looking for Software Engineers with Applied AI experience who can own the design, build, and deployment of agentic workflows powered by Large Language Models (LLMs), from early prototypes to production-grade AI agents, to deliver concrete business value in enterprise workflows.

You’ll work closely with customers on real-world business problems, often building first-of-their-kind agent workflows that integrate LLMs with tools, APIs, and data sources. While our pace is startup-fast, the bar is enterprise-high: agents must be reliable, observable, safe, and auditable from day one.

Location: UK

Active DV clearance is highly preferred

In this role, you will:

- 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

You may be a good fit if:

- You have hands-on experience building and deploying production-grade software in Python; you write clean, testable, observable, scalable code
- You've built and deployed highly performant RAG and agentic applications, including agents that plan and execute multi-step tasks using patterns like ReAct or Plan-and-Execute
- You're deeply familiar with the LLM stack: frontier models, vector databases, and orchestration frameworks
- You have a proven ability to build robust evaluation frameworks, moving well beyond trial and error, to measure agent accuracy, safety, and latency
- You’re experienced working directly with customers and can lead technical discussions with enterprise stakeholders, translating ambiguous business needs into concrete technical specs
- You have experience owning the full scope of a use case end-to-end
- You thrive in fast-paced and ambiguous environments and can execute well even when priorities are shifting

It's a bonus if you have:

- Experience setting architectural standards for AI and agentic systems across distributed teams
- Experience flexing into unfamiliar technical areas, such as frontend, when the problem calls for it
- Exposure to regulated or sensitive industry environments (finance, healthcare, telecoms)
- Experience with enterprise security, compliance, or auditability requirements for AI systems

FULL-TIME EMPLOYEES AT COHERE ENJOY THESE PERKS:

- 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.

## HOW AND WHERE WE WORK:

- Cohere is remote-friendly, but we also have offices in Toronto, London, New York City, San Francisco, Montreal, Paris, Berlin and Seoul with more opening soon.
- For those in the office: a daily lunch program, plenty of snacks, and regular community and social events.
- For those not near an office: a co-working benefit so you can work alongside others in your city.
- Everyone receives a $500 home office stipend to set up your workspace properly.

If any of the above doesn’t line up exactly with your experience, we still encourage you to apply.

We strive to create an inclusive work environment for all; we welcome applicants from all backgrounds and are committed to providing equal opportunities. Should you require any accommodations during the recruitment process, please submit an Accommodations Request Form https://docs.google.com/forms/d/12a6IrLdF3kI2nonKSr4tiFuz18rLQbaeYV-JM9L4o9Q/edit, and we will work together to meet your needs.

We may use AI-enabled tools to screen and assess applicants against the criteria for this position. This helps our recruiters identify potentially qualified candidates, but it doesn't limit the applications our recruiters may review or consider.

Beware of Scams: Cohere will never ask for payment or third-party services (e.g., CV writing) as part of our hiring process. All legitimate roles are listed on the Cohere careers page and LinkedIn only, with all communications from Cohere employees coming from an @cohere.com or @cw.cohere email alias. If jobs are viewed on other sites then please verify these through our official careers https://cohere.com/careers page.

## About Cohere

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Cohere builds enterprise-grade AI foundation models and secure, customizable AI solutions that allow businesses to deploy generative, retrieval, and speech capabilities on their own infrastructure.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series D, raised ~$1B as of 2024)
- **Headquarters**: Toronto, Canada (with offices in New York, London, San Francisco, Montreal, Paris, Seoul)
- **Founded**: 2019
- **Founders**: Aidan Gomez (CEO), Nick Frosst, Ivan Zhang

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Enterprise AI / Artificial Intelligence
- Target customers: B2B, primarily large enterprises and public sector organizations across finance, healthcare, manufacturing, telecommunications, energy, and government
- Mission statement: “Do whatever it takes to scale intelligence to serve humanity” – AI’s highest purpose is to enhance human wellbeing by empowering businesses to scale innovation, boost productivity, and drive progress.

## Products & Services
- **Command**: High-performance generative model with agentic capabilities, reasoning, tool orchestration, and multimodal intelligence – supports 49 languages.
- **Rerank**: Relevance-based search optimization that personalizes and refines results based on user needs.
- **Embed**: Semantic text representation for accurate document comparison and fast, scalable retrieval.
- **Transcribe**: High-fidelity speech-to-text engine supporting 14 languages, robust to real-world conversational environments.
- **North**: Turnkey AI workplace platform launched in 2025, offering agentic capabilities and advanced retrieval to automate tasks and surface insights securely grounded in enterprise data.
- **Cohere Labs**: Open science initiative with 4,500+ community members and 100+ published research papers.

## Competitive Advantages
- Full data sovereignty and security: Models can be deployed in a virtual private cloud (VPC), on-premises, or in a dedicated Cohere-managed Model Vault.
- Highly customizable: Clients can train on proprietary data and build unique AI solutions for specific use cases, infrastructure, and languages.
- Multi-layered protection with industry-certified security standards.
- Strong open science foundation (Cohere Labs) and research output (100+ papers).

## Strategic Focus
- Agentic AI for enterprise: Unified reasoning, tool orchestration, and multimodal intelligence in a single model.
- Sovereign AI workplace: Ensuring enterprises maintain control over their data and infrastructure.
- Expanding the North platform as a turnkey productivity solution.
- Global expansion with offices in North America, Europe, and Asia.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: “Flexible, collaborative, and built on trust.” Values of Autonomy, Openness, and Momentum.
- **Remote/hybrid**: Globally dispersed company that supports remote work; employees can work from anywhere. Offices in seven cities with catered lunches, snacks, and social events. Teams have budgets for offsite gatherings.
- **Benefits**:
  - Six weeks’ paid vacation
  - Equity/stock options (all co-owners)
  - Retirement benefits
  - Six months fully paid parental leave (including adoption/surrogacy)
  - Medical, health insurance, vision, travel coverage (varies by location)
  - Mental health provider access
  - Fertility/family planning financial support
  - Monthly fitness/wellness allowance
  - $2,000 annual education benefit for conferences/courses
  - Annual arts & culture allowance
  - Monthly quality time allowance
  - One-time workplace improvement stipend for home office
  - Monthly co-working benefit for remote employees
  - Weekly meal stipend for remote workers
- **Interview process**: Clear and collaborative – application review, recruiter conversation, take-home assignment, hiring manager, final team rounds. Video conference-friendly.

## Sources
1. [cohere.com](https://cohere.com/) – Product overview, security, and industry solutions
2. [cohere.com/about](https://cohere.com/about) – Company history, founders, mission, funding, team
3. [cohere.com/careers](https://cohere.com/careers) – Benefits, culture, FAQs, remote policy
4. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/cohere](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/cohere) – Current job openings and internships
5. [linkedin.com/company/cohere-ai](https://www.linkedin.com/company/cohere-ai) – Company page, acquisitions, revenue reference

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