Forward Deployed Engineer, Prompt Specialist at Cohere

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Not SpecifiedCompensation
Mid-level (3 to 4 years), Senior (5 to 8 years)Experience Level
Full TimeJob Type
UnknownVisa
Finance, Healthcare, Telecommunications, TechnologyIndustries

Requirements

  • Proven experience deploying LLM-powered agents in production environments, with a focus on scalability and real-world impact
  • Enthusiasm for solving complex challenges in enterprise settings through agent-based solutions
  • Ability to thrive in collaborative environments, bringing diverse perspectives and knowledge from varied industries
  • Comfortable operating at the intersection of software engineering and machine learning, bridging technical and business needs
  • Background in analytics, NLP, or related fields
  • 0–5 years of professional experience, with a growth mindset and eagerness to shape the future of AI-driven agents

Responsibilities

  • Review, refine, and iterate on prompts for Cohere’s Command model to enhance performance across diverse customer agents and use cases
  • Collaborate with clients to refine custom tools and conduct rigorous evaluations to ensure alignment with their objectives
  • Contribute to defining and shaping core agents for out-of-the-box (OOTB) deployment on Cohere’s North platform, driving innovation in agent capabilities
  • Deeply understand customer business needs, then design and build tailored agents that deliver measurable improvements to their operations
  • Partner directly with customers to define and track key metrics such as quality, efficiency, and accuracy, ensuring agents meet and exceed their goals

Skills

Prompt Engineering
Prompt Optimization
Cohere Command
Tool Development
Agent Development
RAG
Semantic Search
AI Agents
North Platform

Cohere

Provides NLP tools and LLMs via API

About Cohere

Cohere provides advanced Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools and Large Language Models (LLMs) through a user-friendly API. Their services cater to a wide range of clients, including businesses that want to improve their content generation, summarization, and search functions. Cohere's business model focuses on offering scalable and affordable generative AI tools, generating revenue by granting API access to pre-trained models that can handle tasks like text classification, sentiment analysis, and semantic search in multiple languages. The platform is customizable, enabling businesses to create smarter and faster solutions. With multilingual support, Cohere effectively addresses language barriers, making it suitable for international use.

Toronto, CanadaHeadquarters
2019Year Founded
$914.4MTotal Funding
SERIES_DCompany Stage
AI & Machine LearningIndustries
501-1,000Employees

Risks

Competitors like Google and Microsoft may overshadow Cohere with seamless enterprise system integration.
Reliance on Nvidia chips poses risks if supply chain issues arise or strategic focus shifts.
High cost of AI data center could strain financial resources if government funding is delayed.

Differentiation

Cohere's North platform outperforms Microsoft Copilot and Google Vertex AI in enterprise functions.
Rerank 3.5 model processes queries in over 100 languages, enhancing multilingual search capabilities.
Command R7B model excels in RAG, math, and coding, outperforming competitors like Google's Gemma.

Upsides

Cohere's AI data center project positions it as a key player in Canadian AI.
North platform offers secure AI deployment for regulated industries, enhancing privacy-focused enterprise solutions.
Cohere's multilingual support breaks language barriers, expanding its global market reach.

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