Forward Deployed Engineer, Sovereign AI

Cohere
Ottawa
Workplace: HybridFull timeFunction: Government & Public AdministrationExperience: 5+ yearsSkills: ["Communication","Problem-solving","Customer collaboration","Teamwork"]

Engineer building and deploying the North AI workspace for Cohere, engaging directly with Canadian public sector customers. You’ll ship features, develop autonomous agents that access sensitive data, and drive end-to-end deployments from private cloud to on‑prem environments while collaborating across the full product lifecycle.

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Cohere
Cohere
4 months ago

Forward Deployed Engineer, Sovereign AI

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Job Summary

Engineer building and deploying the North AI workspace for Cohere, engaging directly with Canadian public sector customers. You’ll ship features, develop autonomous agents that access sensitive data, and drive end-to-end deployments from private cloud to on‑prem environments while collaborating across the full product lifecycle.
Location: Ottawa
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Government & Public Administration

Key Responsibilities

  • •Build and ship features for North, Cohere’s AI workspace platform.
  • •Develop autonomous agents that talk to sensitive enterprise data.
  • •Experiment at a high velocity and with high quality to engage customers and deliver solutions.
  • •Work across the entire product lifecycle from conceptualization through production.
  • •Lead end-to-end deployment of North in private cloud and on-premises environments, including planning, configuration, testing, and rollout.
Travel: Medium travel

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Health InsuranceDentalRemote WorkParental LeaveCo-working StipendLearning Budget

Key Requirements

  • •5+ years shipping Python in production and building distributed AI or agent-based solutions.
  • •Hands-on experience delivering autonomous agents that interface with enterprise data.
  • •Strong coding ability across the stack and ability to read, fix, and contribute beyond the main code base.
  • •Experience leading end-to-end deployments in private cloud and on-premises environments.
  • •Willing to travel 20-40% and be located near government customers (Ottawa or Toronto).
Experience:5+ yearsPublic sectorGenAIAI workspaceRAG
Skills:CommunicationProblem-solvingCustomer collaborationTeamwork
Tech Stack:PythonPrivate cloudOn-premisesCloud

Eligibility

Work Authorization:Authorization required. Sponsorship not provided.
Security Clearance:Top Secret

Company Brief

Cohere
Builds security-first foundation models and enterprise AI products (LLMs, retrieval, agent platforms) for regulated industries, enabling customizable, private deployments across cloud and on-premises for real-world business applications.
Industry: AI & Machine Learning
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series D
Headquarters: Toronto, Canada
Founded: 2019
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Glassdoor: 2.9
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