Cohere · 17 hours ago
Solutions Architect (Public Sector)
Washington, DC
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
5+ years expCohere is on a mission to scale intelligence to serve humanity by training and deploying frontier models for AI systems. As a Solutions Architect, you will grow Cohere’s Public Sector business by acting as a trusted technical advisor, helping to increase product adoption and gathering insights to shape future offerings.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Foundational AIGenerative AIMachine LearningNatural Language Processing
No H1B
Security Clearance RequiredU.S. Citizen Only
Responsibilities
Developing a deep understanding of customer problems, mapping them to Cohere solutions, and working closely with our partners as the trusted technical advisor who owns the technical relationship with our stakeholders
Help to increase the adoption of Cohere products, both internally and externally, and will gather valuable insights and feedback from customers to help shape the future of our products
Take a hands-on approach to building customer Proof of Concepts that showcase the business value of our platform
Collaborate with stakeholders to understand their business objectives and translate those into technical solutions
Take ownership of the customer narrative, serving as the voice of the customer and acting as a liaison between the customer and our product team
Provide guidance on best practices for using Cohere, identify areas for improvement within the platform, and cultivate technical champions within customer organizations to drive adoption and gather feedback to enhance our products
Leading the technical talk track on customer calls
Deep dives on customer problems and Cohere technology
Designing novel enterprise solutions with bleeding-edge NLP technology
Facilitating customer evaluations and PoC’s
Developing and documenting processes to enable the solutions architect team to scale effectively within Cohere
Collaborating with the Product and Engineering teams to ensure our offering matches the customers’ needs
Working closely with our partners to develop a strategy for enabling and accelerating their customers
Qualification
Required
Must have: Security Clearance
5+ years of public sector customer-facing technical pre/post sales Solutions Architect (or similar) experience
2+ years architecting or deploying NLP/AI/LLM Solutions
A passion for Generative AI, and an understanding of strengths and weaknesses of Generative LLM's and AI technologies
Comfortable working with Python and Jupyter Notebooks
Excellent communication skills - you can toggle seamlessly between presenting to CEOs, and getting in the weeds or white boarding with technical audiences
High tolerance for ambiguity
You can identify and implement high-impact processes in unstructured environments
Preferred
Experience managing Kubernetes clusters
Experience with networking (firewalls, DNS, cert management, etc)
Familiarity with authentication protocols/frameworks (SAML, OAuth, etc)
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!)
Company
Cohere
Cohere is an enterprise AI firm developing secure and private AI technology to address real-world business challenges.
201-500 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$1.71BKey Investors
Business Development Bank of Canada,Nexxus Capital ManagementInovia Capital,Radical VenturesGovernment of Canada
2025-09-24Series D· $100M
2025-08-14Series D· $500M
2025-06-17Secondary Market
Leadership Team
Aidan Gomez
cofounder + ceo
Ivan Zhang
Co-Founder
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