Cohere is the leading security-first enterprise AI company. We build cutting-edge foundation AI models and end-to-end products that are designed to solve real-world business problems.

Cohere is the leading security-first enterprise AI company. We build cutting-edge foundation AI models and end-to-end products that are designed to solve real-world business problems. We’re training and deploying frontier models for enterprises who are building AI systems.

We believe that our work is instrumental to the widespread adoption of AI and we are looking for folks that want to be part of that. Each one of us is responsible for contributing to increasing the capabilities of our models and the value they drive for our customers. We are a global technology company headquartered in Toronto with key offices in London, New York City, San Francisco, Montreal, Paris, Berlin and Seoul.

Cohere is revolutionizing enterprise AI with North, an agentic AI platform designed to securely deploy AI agents and automations within organizations' infrastructure. North empowers employees to streamline workflows, automate repetitive tasks, and unlock actionable insights while ensuring data privacy and compliance. North combines cutting-edge generative and search models with customizable integrations to drive productivity and innovation at scale.

You are expected to engage at the implementation level, contributing to architecture decisions alongside engineering rather than simply handing off requirements. Own how our Agents manage the context window as a deliberately controlled resource. Model-Scaffolding Co-evolution.

Serve as the primary interface between North engineering and Cohere's Modeling team, ensuring new harness capabilities are validated before being built and that neither team paints itself into a corner

Own North's agentic evaluation framework,



ensuring evals are compatible with both the North harness and Modeling's training infrastructure, and that they serve as a reliable bridge between product and research

Engage enterprise customers to surface real-world agentic failures and translate findings into concrete product and model requirements

Stay current with the open-source and commercial agent ecosystem and drive adoption decisions that keep North's architecture aligned with emerging standards. scaffolding gaps

Technically deep enough to contribute to architecture decisions at the implementation level: comfortable reviewing and shaping design docs, reasoning about async execution patterns, sandboxed environments, filesystem design, and the tradeoffs that come with building harness capabilities into a production platform

Track record of shipping platform-layer products with demonstrated impact on reliability, performance, or capability. Direct experience in developing and shipping leading agentic harnesses.

An active practitioner of agent frameworks who regularly builds with and follows the latest developments in open-source harnesses, coding agents, and orchestration tools in both professional and personal work

Hands-on experience with enterprise agentic deployments: multi-tenant orchestration, tool permissioning, audit trails, and compliance requirements

Familiarity with infrastructure constraints relevant to enterprise deployments: on-premises environments, scalability challenges,



and the operational tradeoffs of running complex agent workloads in restricted or air-gapped settings

Prior work at the intersection of research and product, translating nascent model capabilities into shipped product features

Background working within or closely alongside an ML research or post-training team. Shape how Canada's most important public institutions adopt and deploy frontier AI.

Growth: Competitive compensation, equity options, and opportunities for career development.

Full-Time Employees At Cohere Enjoy These Perks A weekly lunch stipend of $75/£75 or equivalent in your local currency for lunch.

Full health and dental benefits, including a separate budget for mental health.

RRSP matching, 401K, Pension Scheme.

100% Parental Leave top-up for up to 6 months, for either parent.

Arts & culture, fitness/wellness, quality time, and a workspace improvement credit.

Education & learning stipend for conferences, courses, and coaching. 6 weeks of paid vacation (30 working days!)

Budget for traveling to other offices if you are remote, plus an annual company offsite. Cohere is remote-friendly, but we also have offices in Toronto, London, New York City, San Francisco, Montreal, Paris, Berlin and Seoul with more opening soon.

For those in the office: a daily lunch program, plenty of snacks, and regular community and social events.

For those not near an office: a co-working benefit so you can work alongside others in your city.

Everyone receives a $500 home office stipend to set up your workspace properly. This helps our recruiters identify potentially qualified candidates, but it doesn't limit the applications our recruiters may review or consider.

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📌 Product Manager - Agent Harness & Modelling (Remote-flexible) (Montreal)
🏢 Cohere
📍 Montreal