About the role

Role Overview

Vice President of AI Engineering & Agent Platforms at Cohere Health (Full remote). You will lead teams building and operating Cohere’s AI platform and agent platforms, partnering closely with the Chief Data & AI Officer to scale and deploy AI capabilities across products and customer environments.

Key Missions / Responsibilities

Lead AI platform engineering and agent platform teams, including:
- Agent runtime systems
- Skills and prompt lifecycle management
- AI infrastructure
- Forward deployed AI engineering
Build and scale Cohere’s AI platform, covering:
- AI infrastructure and runtime platforms
- Agent orchestration, workflow, and execution services
- MLOps/LLMOps capabilities
Establish engineering best practices, platform standards, and operational processes to scale AI safely and efficiently across customers, products, and healthcare workflows.

Requirements

Experience deploying AI-powered applications into production environments
Experience with AWS or other modern cloud-native technologies
15+ years of software engineering experience, including significant leadership responsibility
Experience building and leading high-performing engineering teams
Deep understanding of:
- Distributed systems
- Platform engineering
- Modern software architecture
Proven track record building and operating cloud-native, data-rich products and platforms
Experience leading large-scale platform, infrastructure, or AI engineering organizations
Ability to lead both technical architecture reviews and executive discussions
Experience leading customer-facing engineering or forward deployed engineering organizations

Nice-to-haves / Additional Signals

Experience building agent platforms, skills frameworks, or AI developer platforms
Experience with generative AI, agentic systems, and AI platform development
Experience with MLOps, LLMOps, AI infrastructure, and developer tooling
Healthcare or other highly regulated industry experience
Experience working directly with enterprise customers on complex technical implementations
Data-rich application experience using structured and unstructured data
Systems-thinking, platform-builder mindset focused on scale and reusable capabilities

About Cohere Health

Cohere Health is a healthcare-focused AI company. It builds AI capabilities to support healthcare workflows and product experiences, operating in a highly regulated environment where reliability and safety are critical.