Forward Deployed Engineer, Agentic Platform (UK Public Sector)
$20k - $40k • Remote • United Kingdom • FullTime
Posted 21d ago
About the job
Cohere is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer for its Agentic Platform, focusing on the UK Public Sector. This role involves bridging Cohere's North AI workspace platform with client engineering teams to solve complex problems and securely integrate AI into critical sectors. You will be responsible for designing, building, and deploying agentic workflows powered by Large Language Models (LLMs), from prototypes to production-grade AI agents, delivering tangible business value. The position requires working closely with customers to translate ambiguous business problems into well-defined agentic workflows, ensuring enterprise-grade reliability, performance, safety, and auditability.
Responsibilities
- 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.
- Build and ship features for the North AI workspace platform across the full product lifecycle.
- Own the scoping and shaping of use cases end-to-end, adapting to various technical areas to drive effective solutions.
- Contribute to shared frameworks and patterns for consistent, high-quality delivery.
- Drive clarity in ambiguous situations, build alignment, and raise engineering quality.
- Travel up to 20-40% to work on-site with customers and partners.
Requirements
- Hands-on experience building and deploying production-grade software in Python with clean, testable, observable, scalable code.
- Experience building and deploying highly performant RAG and agentic applications, including agents using patterns like ReAct or Plan-and-Execute.
- Deep familiarity with the LLM stack: frontier models, vector databases, and orchestration frameworks.
- Proven ability to build robust evaluation frameworks to measure 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.
- Active DV clearance is highly preferred.
Benefits
- Weekly lunch stipend of $75/£75 or equivalent.
- 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.
- Annual enrichment benefits (Arts & culture, fitness/wellness, quality time, workspace improvement).
- Education & learning stipend for conferences, courses, and coaching.
- 6 weeks of paid vacation (30 working days).
- Budget for traveling to other offices.
- Annual company offsite.
- $500 home office stipend.