Security-Cleared Public Sector AI Solutions Architect

Cohere; Washington; Hybrid; USD 205,000 - 245,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Weekly lunch stipend

Health and dental benefits

RRSP matching / 401K / Pension

Parental leave top-up

Education & learning stipend

6 weeks paid vacation

Travel budget to other offices

Home office stipend

Job summary

Cohere is expanding its Public Sector team and seeking a Solutions Architect with a security clearance. You will own the technical relationship, map customer problems to Cohere solutions, and lead PoCs and pre/post-sales activities across enterprise clients.

The role emphasizes strategic thinking and hands-on delivery, with collaboration across product and engineering to ensure offerings meet customer needs and drive adoption.

Qualifications

• Must have Security Clearance.
• 5+ years of public sector customer-facing technical pre/post sales Solutions Architect (or similar) experience.
• 2+ years architecting or deploying NLP/AI/LLM Solutions.
• A passion for Generative AI and understanding of strengths and weaknesses of Generative LLMs and AI technologies.
• Comfortable working with Python and Jupyter Notebooks.
• Excellent communication skills—able to present to CEOs and drill into technical details.
• High tolerance for ambiguity and ability to implement high-impact processes in unstructured environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical talk track on customer calls.
• Deep dives on customer problems and Cohere technology.
• Design enterprise solutions with cutting-edge NLP technology.
• Facilitate customer evaluations and PoCs.
• Develop and document processes to scale the solutions architect team.
• Collaborate with Product and Engineering to align offerings with customer needs.
• Work with partners to enable and accelerate their customers.

Skills

Security Clearance

Public sector experience

Python

Jupyter Notebooks

Communication skills

Generative AI understanding

Tools

Kubernetes

Networking fundamentals

SAML/OAuth authentication

Job description

Cohere is expanding its Public Sector team and seeking a Solutions Architect with a security clearance. You will own the technical relationship, map customer problems to Cohere solutions, and lead PoCs and pre/post-sales activities across enterprise clients.

The role emphasizes strategic thinking and hands-on delivery, with collaboration across product and engineering to ensure offerings meet customer needs and drive adoption.