Engineering Manager

Job description

Who are we? Cohere is the leading security-first enterprise AI company. We build cutting-edge foundation AI models and end-to-end products that are designed to solve real-world business problems. We’re training and deploying frontier models for enterprises who are building AI systems. We believe that our work is instrumental to the widespread adoption of AI and we are looking for folks that want to be part of that. We obsess over what we build. Each one of us is responsible for contributing to increasing the capabilities of our models and the value they drive for our customers. Cohere is a team of researchers, engineers, designers, and more, who are all passionate about their craft. We are a global technology company co-headquartered in Toronto and San Francisco, with key offices in London, New York City, Montreal, Seoul, Germany and Paris. Join us! Role Overview: As Engineering Manager for our verticals application team, you'll lead a team of engineers building full-stack applications, backend and frontend, that bring AI into critical sectors, starting with the Pharmaceutical industry and expanding into areas like finance and healthcare over time. You'll own the application and user-experience layer, partnering closely with the ML engineering teams who build the underlying data and agent infrastructure. Day to day, that means working with product managers, designers, and ML engineers to ship best-in-class applications, while hiring, mentoring, and growing your team. We're looking for someone who has built AI-first products deeply integrated with agentic systems, and who can deliver secure systems that users can trust in high-stakes environments. Our pace is startup-fast, but the bar is enterprise-high: these applications must be reliable, observable, safe, and auditable from day one. Key Responsibilities: Lead and manage backend and frontend engineers, fostering collaboration and ensuring predictable delivery Act as the primary interface between Product and Engineering teams Transform product requirements into a technical roadmap and own it end-to-end Design, build, ship, and maintain scalable features for Cohere verticals Apply technical expertise to make practical decisions that balance velocity, depth, and quality Contribute across the stack to develop new features, fix bugs, and optimize performance Foster a culture of continuous improvement and innova…