Software Engineer, Agents & Automations

Summary

Cohere is the leading security-first enterprise AI company, building cutting-edge foundation AI models and products. The Software Engineer, Agents & Automations will design and maintain core capabilities for the North platform, helping customers create AI-powered workflows and automations.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, ship, and maintain core capabilities for North’s Agents & Automations platform
• Build product and platform features that help users create, run, debug, evaluate, and improve agents and automations
• Own features end-to-end, from technical design through implementation, testing, launch, and iteration
• Work across the stack, from frontend product surfaces to backend systems, depending on what the product needs
• Make practical technical decisions that balance speed, quality, depth, and user impact
• Collaborate closely with product, design, modelling, customer-facing teams, and other engineers to define the right outcomes and ship measurable improvements
• Use AI actively in your work, while staying intellectually engaged and accountable for the quality and reliability of what you ship

Skills

• You have built, shipped, and operated production software used by real users or customers
• You are comfortable working across backend, frontend, product, data, and infrastructure boundaries
• You have strong product judgment, pay attention to product details and care deeply about whether your work helps the end user
• You bring high agency: you act, tinker, learn quickly, and drive change without waiting for perfect instructions
• You move quickly while maintaining a high bar for correctness, maintainability, and user impact
• You communicate clearly, document important decisions, and collaborate well across functions
• You can advocate for a point of view, change your mind when the evidence changes, and commit once a decision is made
• You are excited to use AI to do your best work, while staying accountable for the systems you build
• Our stack includes Python, TypeScript with React, Postgres, and Kubernetes
• We care more about strong fundamentals, product judgment, agency, and learning ability than prior experience with every part of the stack

Qualifications

Must Haves

• You have built, shipped, and operated production software used by real users or customers
• You are comfortable working across backend, frontend, product, data, and infrastructure boundaries
• You have strong product judgment, pay attention to product details and care deeply about whether your work helps the end user
• You bring high agency: you act, tinker, learn quickly, and drive change without waiting for perfect instructions
• You move quickly while maintaining a high bar for correctness, maintainability, and user impact
• You communicate clearly, document important decisions, and collaborate well across functions
• You can advocate for a point of view, change your mind when the evidence changes, and commit once a decision is made
• You are excited to use AI to do your best work, while staying accountable for the systems you build

Nice to Haves

• Our stack includes Python, TypeScript with React, Postgres, and Kubernetes
• We care more about strong fundamentals, product judgment, agency, and learning ability than prior experience with every part of the stack

Benefits

• Cohere is remote-friendly.
• We have offices in Toronto, San Francisco, New York City, London, Paris, Montreal, and more coming soon.
• For those in the office: a daily lunch program, plenty of snacks, and regular community and social events.
• For those not near an office: a co-working benefit so you can work alongside others in your city.