Forward Deployed Engineer

Key Skills

Analytical and Problem solving, Design, Effective communication skills, HuggingFace, Large Language Models - LLMs, Machine learning techniques, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Node.js, Python Programming, React.js, spaCy

Job Description

We’re a small, diverse team working at the cutting edge of machine learning. At Cohere, our mission is to build machines that understand the world and to make them safely accessible to all. Language is at the crux of this, but it can be difficult and expensive to parse the syntax, semantics, and context that all work together to give words meaning. The Cohere platform provides access to Large Language Models through its APIs that read billions of web pages and learns to understand the meaning, sentiment, and intent of the words we use in a richness never seen before. 

We've recently raised our Series C, and we are focused on bringing our technology to market. We will partner with customers so they can build natural language understanding and generation into their products with just a few lines of code.

We’re ambitious — we believe our technology will fundamentally transform how industries interact with natural language. And we have the technical chops to back it up - Cohere’s CEO, Aidan Gomez, is a co-author of the groundbreaking paper “Attention is all you need”, and was previously part of Google Brain. Our entire technical team is world-class. 

We are focused on creating a diverse and inclusive work environment so that all of our team members can thrive. We welcome kind and brilliant people to our team, from wherever they come.

Why this role?

Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) work directly with customers to quickly understand their greatest problems and design and implement solutions using Large Language Models.

In this role, you’ll apply your problem-solving ability, creativity, and technical skills to close the last-mile gap in Enterprise AI adoption. You’ll be able to deliver products like early startup CTOs/CEOs do and disrupt some of the most important industries and institutions globally!

As an FDE, you will:

- Own and build large new areas within our product.

- Work across the backend, frontend, and interact with Large Language Models.

- Experiment at a high velocity and level of quality to engage our customers and eventually deliver solutions that exceed their expectations.

- Work across the entire product lifecycle from conceptualization through production.

The FDE career opportunity may be a good match for you if you have:

- Proficiency in one or more of Go, Python, Node, React, Next.js 

- Experience building ML infrastructure and AI-powered solutions.

- Experience scaling products at hyper-growth startups.

- Strong written and verbal communication skills.

- Ability and interest to travel up to 25%, as needed to client sites, but flexible based on personal preferences.

Nice to have skills/experiences:

- Experience building LLM applications using tools such as Langchain.

- Experience in Information Retrieval systems for document question answering.

- Experience in day-to-day NLP for the industry using Python and related toolchains (SpaCy, HuggingFace, NLTK, etc.).

If some of the above doesn’t line up perfectly with your experience, we still encourage you to apply! If you consider yourself a thoughtful worker, a lifelong learner, and a kind and playful team member, Cohere is the place for you.