Solutions Architect - Public Sector

Cohere
Washington / Toronto / San Francisco2026-03-19Hybrid

About the job

In this role as a Solutions Architect at Cohere, you will play a significant role in growing Cohere’s Public Sector business and have a great deal of autonomy when it comes to technical pre-sales and post-sales. In order to qualify for this exciting career opportunity, you must have a Security Clearance.

Responsibilities

Developing a deep understanding of customer problems, mapping them to Cohere solutions, and working closely with our partners as the trusted technical advisor who owns the technical relationship with our stakeholders.

Helping to increase the adoption of Cohere products, both internally and externally, and gathering valuable insights and feedback from customers to help shape the future of our products.

Taking a hands-on approach to building customer Proof of Concepts that showcase the business value of our platform.

Collaborating with stakeholders to understand their business objectives and translating those into technical solutions.

Providing guidance on best practices for using Cohere, identifying areas for improvement within the platform, and cultivating technical champions within customer organizations to drive adoption and gather feedback to enhance our products.

Qualifications

Minimum

Must have: Security Clearance

5+ years of public sector customer-facing technical pre/post sales Solutions Architect (or similar) experience.

2+ years architecting or deploying NLP/AI/LLM Solutions.

A passion for Generative AI, and an understanding of strengths and weaknesses of Generative LLM's and AI technologies.

Comfortable working with Python and Jupyter Notebooks.

Excellent communication skills - you can toggle seamlessly between presenting to CEOs, and getting in the weeds or white boarding with technical audiences.

High tolerance for ambiguity.

You can identify and implement high-impact processes in unstructured environments.

Preferred

Experience managing Kubernetes clusters

Experience with networking (firewalls, DNS, cert management, etc)

Familiarity with authentication protocols/frameworks (SAML, OAuth, etc)