Cohere
At Cohere, our mission is to build machines that understand the world, and to make them safely accessible to all.
Applied AI Engineer – Agentic Workflows
Location
California
Posted
59 days ago
Salary
Not specified
Bachelor Degree3 yrs expEnglishJava ScriptPythonReactType Script
Job Description
• 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.
Job Requirements
- 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.
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!)
