Forward Deployed Engineer, Infrastructure Specialist

About the role

This role serves as a bridge between Cohere's North AI workspace platform and client engineering teams. You will lead the end-to-end deployment of North in private cloud and on-premises environments, ensuring secure integration into critical sectors. The position involves partnering with enterprise IT teams to assess infrastructure and security requirements while delivering high-quality, tailored solutions.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end deployment of North in private cloud and on-premises environments, including planning, configuration, testing, and rollout.
• Partner with enterprise IT teams to assess infrastructure, security requirements, and data management practices.
• Experiment at a high velocity and with a high level of quality to engage our customers and ultimately deliver solutions that exceed their expectations.
• Design and implement deployment strategies tailored to client needs, ensuring compliance with data privacy and security standards.
• Troubleshoot and resolve deployment-related technical issues, providing timely solutions to minimize downtime.
• Travel up to 20–40% to work on-site with customers and partners.

Required skills

• Kubernetes
• Helm
• DevOps
• CI/CD
• Git
• Cloud infrastructure
• Azure
• AWS
• GCP
• Networking
• Virtualization

Nice to have

• GPU node orchestration
• Inference systems
• Distributed systems
• Performance optimization

Benefits

• Weekly lunch stipend
• Health and dental benefits
• Mental health budget
• Pension scheme
• Parental leave top-up
• Annual enrichment benefits
• Education and learning stipend
• 6 weeks paid vacation
• Home office stipend

About the Company

Cohere is a security-first enterprise AI company that builds cutting-edge foundation AI models and end-to-end products designed to solve real-world business problems. The company is a global technology firm headquartered in Toronto with offices in major cities worldwide.