Cohere · 5 days ago
Applied AI Engineer – Agentic Workflows
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid Level
3+ years expCohere is a fast-growing startup focused on scaling intelligence to serve humanity through AI systems. They are seeking an Applied AI Engineer to design, build, and deploy agentic workflows powered by Large Language Models for enterprise customers, ensuring reliability and business value in real-world applications.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Foundational AIGenerative AIMachine LearningNatural Language Processing
Responsibilities
Work with enterprise customers and internal teams to turn business workflows into scalable, production-ready agentic AI systems
Design and build LLM-powered agents that reason, plan, and act across tools and data sources with enterprise-grade reliability
Balance rapid iteration with enterprise requirements, evolving prototypes into stable, reusable solutions
Define and apply evaluation and quality standards to measure success, failures, and regressions
Debug real-world agent behavior and systematically improve prompts, workflows, tools, and guardrails
Contribute to shared frameworks and patterns that enable consistent delivery across customers
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field
Strong programming skills in Python and/or JavaScript/TypeScript
3+ years of experience building and shipping production software; 2+ years working with LLMs or AI APIs
Hands-on experience with modern LLMs (e.g., GPT, Claude, Gemini), vector databases, and agent/orchestration frameworks (e.g., LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, or custom solutions)
Practical experience with RAG, agent workflows, evaluation, and performance optimization
Strong agent design skills, including prompt engineering, tool use, multi-step agent workflows (e.g. ReAct), and failure handling
Ability to reason about and balance trade-offs between customization and reuse, as well as autonomy, control, cost, latency, and risk
Strong communication skills and experience leading technical discussions with customers or partners
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Ability and interest to travel up to 25%, flexible
Preferred
Experience working in a fast-moving startup environment
Prior work delivering AI or automation solutions to enterprise customers
Familiarity with human-in-the-loop workflows, fine-tuning, or LLM evaluation techniques
Experience with cloud deployment and production operations for AI systems
Background in applied ML, NLP, or decision systems
Benefits
An open and inclusive culture and work environment
Work closely with a team on the cutting edge of AI research
Weekly lunch stipend, in-office lunches & snacks
Full health and dental benefits, including a separate budget to take care of your mental health
100% Parental Leave top-up for up to 6 months
Personal enrichment benefits towards arts and culture, fitness and well-being, quality time, and workspace improvement
Remote-flexible, offices in Toronto, New York, San Francisco, London and Paris, as well as a co-working stipend
6 weeks of vacation (30 working days!)
Company
Cohere
Cohere is an enterprise AI firm developing secure and private AI technology to address real-world business challenges.
201-500 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$1.71BKey Investors
Government of CanadaTiger Global ManagementIndex Ventures
2025-09-24Series D· $100M
2025-08-14Series D· $500M
2025-06-17Secondary Market
Leadership Team
Aidan Gomez
cofounder + ceo
Ivan Zhang
Co-Founder
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