VP, AI Engineering & Agent Platforms
Opportunity Overview:
Reporting to the Chief Digital & Technology Officer, the Vice President of AI Engineering & Agent Platforms will lead the teams responsible for AI platform engineering, agent platforms, agent runtime systems, skills and prompt lifecycle management and framework, AI infrastructure, MLOps/LLMOps, and forward deployed AI engineering.
This role partners closely with the Chief Data & AI Officer, who owns Cohere's AI strategy, model development, evaluation frameworks, prompt design and governance, skills requirements and behavior, knowledge management frameworks, and data science functions. The VP of AI Engineering & Agent Platforms is responsible for operationalizing, scaling, deploying, and running those capabilities across Cohere's products and customer environments.
This leader will build the platforms, engineering systems, and deployment capabilities that enable Cohere to rapidly deliver AI-powered solutions while maintaining the reliability, security, and compliance required in healthcare.
What You'll Do:
Build and Scale Our AI Platform
Lead the engineering organization responsible for the foundational platforms and services that power Cohere's AI ecosystem.
Responsibilities include:
AI infrastructure and runtime platforms
Agent orchestration, workflow, and execution services
Document processing and knowledge ingestion pipelines
MLOps and LLMOps capabilities
AI observability, monitoring, and reliability
Partnership with core teams to build AI native Developer platforms and engineering productivity tools
Build and evolve Cohere's enterprise agent platform, enabling teams to rapidly develop, evaluate, deploy, govern, and operate AI agents at scale.
Lead Agent Engineering
Build the frameworks, services, and reusable capabilities that enable teams to rapidly develop, test, deploy, and operate secure, observable, and production-ready AI-powered solutions.
Areas of focus include:
Agent architectures, orchestration, and runtime frameworks
Multi-agent systems and workflow automation
Skills management and reusable action frameworks
Evaluation, testing, and agent observability infrastructure
Human-in-the-loop and supervised AI workflows
Enterprise integrations and action surfaces
Partnership in skills design with data science
Design and scale the engineering systems used to build, manage, deploy, and govern reusable agent skills across healthcare workflows.
Lead Prompt and Skills Lifecycle Operations
Establish the platforms and operational capabilities required to manage AI behavior at scale.
Responsibilities include:
Prompt lifecycle management
Prompt deployment and versioning
Prompt testing infrastructure
Skills deployment and governance
Agent configuration management
AI release management and rollback capabilities
Scale a Forward Deployed AI Engineering Organization
Lead a team of customer-facing engineers responsible for deploying and operationalizing Cohere's AI solutions within customer environments.
This organization partners closely with customers to:
Implement AI-powered workflows
Integrate with enterprise systems
Accelerate adoption and value realization
Establish repeatable deployment patterns that enable scale
Support complex customer implementations and transformations
Drive Operational Excellence
Establish engineering best practices, platform standards, and operational processes that allow Cohere to scale AI safely and efficiently across customers, products, and healthcare workflows.
Partner closely with Product, Clinical Operations, Customer Success, Security, and the Chief Data & AI Officer's organization to ensure AI capabilities move efficiently from concept to production.
What you’ll need:
Must-Haves
15+ years of software engineering experience, including significant leadership responsibility
Experience leading large-scale platform, infrastructure, or AI engineering organizations
Proven track record building and operating cloud-native, data-rich products and platforms
Experience deploying AI-powered applications into production environments
Experience with AWS or other modern cloud-native technologies
Healthcare or other highly regulated industry experience
Deep understanding of distributed systems, platform engineering, and modern software architecture
Experience building and leading high-performing engineering teams
Nice-to-Haves
Experience with generative AI, agentic systems, and AI platform development
Experience building agent platforms, skills frameworks, or AI developer platforms
Experience with MLOps, LLMOps, AI infrastructure, and developer tooling
Experience working directly with enterprise customers on complex technical implementations
Track record developing data-rich applications leveraging structured and unstructured data
Experience leading customer-facing engineering or forward deployed engineering organizations
Leadership Characteristics
The ideal candidate is:
A platform builder who thinks in systems, scale, and reusable capabilities
Passionate about turning innovation into reliable, production-ready products
Customer-focused and outcome-oriented
Comfortable leading through rapid growth and organizational change
Equally effective in technical architecture reviews and executive discussions
Excited about helping define the future of agentic AI in healthcare
This is a remote-first role that may require travel to Boston, MA for new hire onboarding and occasional in-person team meetings and company events.
Pay & Perks:
💻 Fully remote opportunity with about 15% travel
🩺 Medical, dental, vision, life, disability insurance, and Employee Assistance Program
📈 401K retirement plan with company match; flexible spending and health savings account
🏝️ Flex Time Off + company holidays
👶 Up to 14 weeks of paid parental leave
🐶 Pet insurance
The salary range for this position is $280,000 to $340,000 annually; as part of a total benefits package which includes health insurance, 401k and bonus. In accordance with state applicable laws, Cohere is required to provide a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. Individual pay decisions are ultimately based on a number of factors, including but not limited to qualifications for the role, experience level, skillset, and internal alignment.
Interview Process*:
Connect with Talent Acquisition for a Preliminary Phone Screening
Meet your Hiring Manager!
Behavioral Interview(s)
*Subject to change
About Cohere Health:
Cohere Health’s clinical intelligence platform and agentic AI-powered solutions connect health plans’ strategic goals and providers’ needs, optimizing the speed, cost, and quality of care. With an enterprise approach that streamlines payer-provider decision-making across the care continuum–including policy, prior authorization, payment accuracy, and more–the company improves collaboration and reduces burden, resulting in up to 8x ROI and 94% provider satisfaction.
With the acquisition of ZignaAI, we’ve further enhanced our platform by launching our Payment Integrity Suite, anchored by Cohere Validate™, an AI-driven clinical and coding validation solution that operates in near real-time. By unifying pre-service authorization data with post-service claims validation, we’re creating a transparent healthcare ecosystem that reduces waste, improves payer-provider collaboration and patient outcomes, and ensures providers are paid promptly and accurately.
Cohere Health’s innovations continue to receive industry wide recognition. We’ve been named to the 2025 Inc. 5000 list and in the Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for U.S. Healthcare Payers (2022-2025), and ranked as a Top 5 LinkedIn™ Startup for 2023 & 2024. Backed by leading investors such as Deerfield Management, Define Ventures, Flare Capital Partners, Longitude Capital, and Polaris Partners.
The Coherenauts, as we call ourselves, who succeed here are empathetic teammates who are candid, kind, caring, and embody our core values and principles. We believe that diverse, inclusive teams make the most impactful work. Cohere is deeply invested in ensuring that we have a supportive, growth-oriented environment that works for everyone.
We can’t wait to learn more about you and meet you at Cohere Health!
Equal Opportunity Statement:
Cohere Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to fostering an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all. To us, it’s personal.
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