Engineering Manager, FDE Infrastructure (NORAM)

We're looking for an Engineering Manager to lead our Deployment Engineering team. This isn't a typical management role — we need someone who leads from the front, gets their hands dirty, and drives impact. You'll manage a team of Forward Deployed Engineers who are on the front lines of deploying Cohere's North platform into customer environments. You should be ready to be a force to be reckoned with.

Location: North America (remote-first)

WHAT YOU'LL DO

- Lead and mentor a team of Forward Deployed Engineers

- Drive end-to-end deployment of North in private cloud and on-premises environments

- Take ownership of customer success from technical implementation through delivery

- Collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, and Sales to shape how we deliver AI to enterprises

- Mentor your team on cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, and enterprise-grade deployments

- Optimize performance for OpenSearch, databases, and other K8s services

- Define scaling guidelines for GPU and CPU compute resources

- Build processes & technology that scales — we're growing fast.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

- 5+ years of experience in software engineering with demonstrated leadership

- Hands-on experience deploying enterprise software at scale

- Strong expertise in cloud infrastructure (Azure, AWS, GCP)

- Experience with Kubernetes, Helm, and CI/CD pipelines

- High agency — you don't wait for permission to solve problems

- A doer mentality — you dig in and get stuff done

- Experience managing engineers in a fast-paced, high-growth environment

- Excellent communication skills in English.

NICE TO HAVE'S

- Fluency in additional European languages

- Experience with AI/ML infrastructure

- Background in enterprise security and compliance.