Senior Agentic AI Engineer for Enterprise LLM Workflows

Cohere; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Lunch stipend

Health & dental benefits

Retirement plan matching

Parental leave top-up

Enrichment benefits

Education stipend

Vacation time

Office travel budget

Home office stipend

Job summary

Cohere is seeking a senior software engineer to design, build, and deploy agentic workflows powered by LLMs within our North product. You will work directly with enterprise customers, translating complex business problems into robust agent-based solutions.

You'll lead cross-functional efforts across tools, data sources, and frontend components, ensuring reliability, observability, and security from day one. This is a senior role with mentorship and impact across the organization.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated ability to build, ship, and operate production-grade software systems.
• Hands-on experience designing, building, evaluating, and fine-tuning LLM-based agents in real-world applications.
• Deep familiarity with modern LLM ecosystems, including models (e.g., GPT, Claude, Gemini), vector databases, RAG architectures, agent/orchestration frameworks, prompt engineering, tool use, multi‑step agent workflows (e.g., ReAct), and robust failure handling.
• Strong proficiency in Python and/or JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Experience working directly with customers or stakeholders to design and deliver LLM-powered agentic solutions aligned with real business needs.
• Proven technical leadership at the team level, including guiding architecture, implementation, and delivery of complex AI systems.

Responsibilities

• Translate high-value business problems into well-framed agentic problems with clear success criteria and evaluation methodologies.
• Provide technical leadership across the full development and evaluation lifecycle, including post-deployment iteration, for agentic workflows.
• Travel up to 20–40% to work on-site with customers and partners.
• Lead the design, build, and delivery of LLM-powered agents that reason, plan, and act across tools and data sources with enterprise-grade reliability and performance.
• 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.
• Build and ship features for North, our AI workspace platform, working across the full product lifecycle from conceptualisation through production.
• Take ownership of scoping and shaping use cases end-to-end, flexing into frontend when needed to drive the most effective solution.
• Mentor engineers across distributed teams.
• Drive clarity in ambiguous situations, build alignment, and raise engineering quality across the organization.
• Contribute to shared frameworks and patterns that enable consistent delivery across customers.

Skills

Production-grade software

LLM-powered agents

LLM ecosystem & prompts

Python

JavaScript/TypeScript

Customer-facing collaboration

Technical leadership

English and Korean fluency

Job description

Cohere is seeking a senior software engineer to design, build, and deploy agentic workflows powered by LLMs within our North product. You will work directly with enterprise customers, translating complex business problems into robust agent-based solutions.

You'll lead cross-functional efforts across tools, data sources, and frontend components, ensuring reliability, observability, and security from day one. This is a senior role with mentorship and impact across the organization.