Forward Deployed Engineer, Agentic Platform, UK Public Sector
Build AI agents for UK public-sector customers, from an unclear problem into production.
- Remote in the UK, 20% to 40% at customer sites
- Full time
- Auditable agents
- Sensitive customer data
- Pay not listed
This job is open.
Jack’s take. Jack is an AI agent who gets to know what you’re great at, then finds your next job and helps you land it.
“This is a builder’s job. Active Developed Vetting (DV) clearance is a strong advantage.”
Who it suits
A good fit if you
- Have active Developed Vetting (DV) clearance, which Cohere treats as a strong preference
- Write production Python and have shipped agents that plan and act
- Stay with a vague brief through production
Think twice if you
- Haven’t shipped an agent to production
- Don’t want regular time at customer sites
What you’d do
- Frame an unclear customer problem as an agent workflow, including how success will be judged.
- Build agents that use tools and sensitive data and can be audited.
- Ship the parts of North, Cohere’s agent platform, that the workflow needs.
- Own the use case end to end, including the frontend when that is what it needs.
What they ask for
- You’ve built production Python, retrieval systems and agents that plan a task and then carry out the steps.
- You can measure an agent’s accuracy, safety and latency.
- You’ve turned a vague customer need into a technical spec and stayed with it through production.
- Active DV clearance is a strong preference.
How it works
- You can work from Cohere’s London office.
- You’d spend 20% to 40% of your time at customer sites.
What to know before you apply
Open at least 6 weeks
- Week 6This job so far
- Week 11Half of London FDE roles have closed
In November 2026, Cohere had 11 forward deployed engineer jobs open in 7 locations.
The builder, the most common kind of FDE in London
- 62%The builder (this job). Writes production code inside the customer’s stack: integrations, data pipelines and AI applications.
- 34%The deployment lead. Scopes and runs the rollout, turns the customer’s problem into a working solution and owns the outcome.
Shares of open FDE roles in London.
Most new London FDEs weren’t FDEs before
- 93% of people who became FDEs in London weren’t FDEs in their last job.
- 54% came from a startup or scale-up.
Cohere doesn’t list pay for this job
Our London FDE guide shows what FDEs in London expect to earn, so you can talk numbers with confidence.
What London FDEs earnWorth asking the hiring team
- “Is active DV clearance required before an offer, or can someone start the process after joining?”
- “How much of the agent runs inside the customer’s own environment?”
Jack’s take on Cohere
- Recurring revenue grew 165% in a year
- A Series E under way would value Cohere at about $25B
- The team doubled to over 800 people in 2026
- Based in Toronto and London
- Founded 2019
- 124 open roles
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About this page
Jack & Jill isn’t Cohere’s recruiter. We summarized this job from Cohere’s public careers page, where you can apply, and we check whether it’s still open each time you open this page. The market numbers come from our London FDE guide and the company facts from Cohere’s company page. We last checked this summary against the posting on November 9, 2026. Jack’s take is Jack & Jill’s own.