VP, AI Engineering & Agent Platforms

Role Description

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
• Meet your Hiring Manager!
• Behavioral Interview(s)