Reporting to the Chief Digital & Technology Officer, the Vice President of AI Engineering & Agent Platforms will lead the teams responsible for:
AI platform engineering
Agent platforms
Agent runtime systems
Skills and prompt lifecycle management and framework
AI infrastructure
MLOps/LLMOps
Forward deployed AI engineering
This role partners closely with the Chief Data & AI Officer, who owns Cohere's AI strategy, model development, evaluation frameworks, prompt design and governance, skills requirements and behavior, knowledge management frameworks, and data science functions. The VP of AI Engineering & Agent Platforms is responsible for operationalizing, scaling, deploying, and running those capabilities across Cohere's products and customer environments.
This leader will build the platforms, engineering systems, and deployment capabilities that enable Cohere to rapidly deliver AI-powered solutions while maintaining the reliability, security, and compliance required in healthcare.
Qualifications
15+ years of software engineering experience, including significant leadership responsibility
Experience leading large-scale platform, infrastructure, or AI engineering organizations
Proven track record building and operating cloud-native, data-rich products and platforms
Experience deploying AI-powered applications into production environments
Experience with AWS or other modern cloud-native technologies
Healthcare or other highly regulated industry experience
Deep understanding of distributed systems, platform engineering, and modern software architecture
Experience building and leading high-performing engineering teams
Requirements
Experience with generative AI, agentic systems, and AI platform development
Experience building agent platforms, skills frameworks, or AI developer platforms
Experience with MLOps, LLMOps, AI infrastructure, and developer tooling
Experience working directly with enterprise customers on complex technical implementations
Track record developing data-rich applications leveraging structured and unstructured data
Experience leading customer-facing engineering or forward deployed engineering organizations
Benefits
Fully remote opportunity with about 15% travel
Medical, dental, vision, life, disability insurance, and Employee Assistance Program
401K retirement plan with company match; flexible spending and health savings account
Flex Time Off + company holidays
Up to 14 weeks of paid parental leave
Pet insurance
Interview Process
Connect with Talent Acquisition for a Preliminary Phone Screening