Forward Deployed Engineer, Agentic Platform

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom.

📋 Description

• Transform complex and high-value challenges faced by enterprise customers into structured workflows with defined success criteria and evaluation methods.

• Develop, construct, and deploy LLM-powered agents capable of reasoning, planning, and operating across various tools, APIs, and sensitive enterprise data sources.

• Create and launch features for North, Cohere's AI workspace platform, managing the entire product lifecycle from initial concept to production.

• Take ownership of and refine use cases from start to finish, collaborating across technical domains including frontend when necessary.

• Contribute to shared frameworks and methodologies to ensure consistent, high-quality delivery for customers and teams alike.

• Provide clarity in uncertain situations, foster alignment, and enhance engineering quality across the organization.

• Travel 20–40% of the time to collaborate on-site with customers and partners.

⛳️ Requirements

• Active DV clearance is strongly preferred.

• Practical experience in building and deploying production-level software using Python.

• Capability to write clean, testable, observable, and scalable code.

• Experience in building and deploying high-performance RAG and agentic applications.

• Familiarity with agents that plan and carry out multi-step tasks using methodologies such as ReAct or Plan-and-Execute.

• Profound understanding of frontier models, vector databases, and orchestration frameworks.

• Demonstrated ability to create robust evaluation frameworks that measure agent accuracy, safety, and latency.

• Experience interacting directly with customers and leading technical discussions with enterprise stakeholders.

• Skill in translating vague business requirements into precise technical specifications.

• Experience managing the complete scope of a use case from beginning to end.

• Ability to excel in fast-paced and ambiguous environments while navigating shifting priorities.

• Experience in setting architectural standards for AI and agentic systems across distributed teams is advantageous.

• Flexibility to adapt into unfamiliar technical areas, such as frontend, is a plus.

• Exposure to regulated or sensitive industry environments is an added benefit.

• Experience with enterprise security, compliance, or auditability requirements for AI systems is a plus.

• Must reside in the UK or be planning to relocate there.

• Eligibility for Active DV clearance is required.

🏝️ Benefits

• A weekly lunch stipend of $75/£75 or the equivalent in your local currency for meals.

• Comprehensive health and dental benefits, with a separate budget allocated for mental health.

• RRSP matching, 401K, and Pension Scheme options.

• 100% parental leave top-up for up to 6 months, applicable to either parent.

• Annual enrichment benefits covering arts & culture, fitness/wellness, quality time, and workspace improvement credits.

• Education and learning stipend available for conferences, courses, and coaching opportunities.

• Six weeks of paid vacation (30 working days).

• Budget allocated for travel to other offices if working remotely, along with an annual company offsite.

• Co-working benefit available for those located away from an office.

• $500 home office stipend provided.