Remote Applied AI Engineer - Agentic Workflows (Singapore)

Description:

• Cohere is a fast-growing startup focused on building production-grade AI agents for enterprise customers at scale.
• The Applied AI Engineer will design, build, and deploy agentic workflows powered by Large Language Models (LLMs).
• The role involves working closely with customers to address real-world business problems and creating innovative agent workflows that integrate LLMs with various tools, APIs, and data sources.
• The position requires balancing rapid iteration with enterprise requirements to evolve prototypes into stable, reusable solutions.
• Responsibilities include defining evaluation and quality standards, debugging agent behavior, and contributing to shared frameworks for consistent delivery across customers.

Requirements:

• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field is required.
• Strong programming skills in Python and/or JavaScript/TypeScript are necessary.
• Candidates must have 3+ years of experience building and shipping production software, with at least 2+ years working with LLMs or AI APIs.
• Hands-on experience with modern LLMs, vector databases, and agent/orchestration frameworks is essential.
• Practical experience with RAG, agent workflows, evaluation, and performance optimization is required.
• Strong agent design skills, including prompt engineering and multi-step workflows, are necessary.
• The ability to reason about trade-offs between customization and reuse, as well as autonomy, control, cost, latency, and risk, is important.
• Strong communication skills and experience leading technical discussions with customers or partners are required.

Benefits:

• Employees will build production-grade AI agents used in real enterprise workflows.
• The role offers the opportunity to operate at scale while retaining end-to-end ownership of projects.
• Employees will work on challenging problems in agent design, evaluation, and reliability.
• There is a chance to shape shared platforms and standards beyond individual features.
• The company promotes a fast-paced work environment with a high bar for quality, safety, and reliability.
• Additional perks include an open and inclusive culture, weekly lunch stipend, full health and dental benefits, 100% parental leave top-up, personal enrichment benefits, remote-flexible work options, and 6 weeks of vacation.