About the role We’re looking for an engineering manager to lead a team building software systems that detect and prevent harmful misuse of frontier AI models—before incidents occur. This is a builder’s role: you’ll lead engineers shipping production services, detection pipelines, and mitigation mechanisms that protect frontier model integrity and reduce high-severity misuse risk. While this work intersects with frontier model development, security and risk, we’re explicitly seeking someone with a software engineering foundation who is comfortable building reliable systems that can operate at billions of users scale. In this role you will: Lead a team of software engineers building detection + mitigation systems for frontier model misuse, with an emphasis on model IP protection / distillation detection and emerging risk surfaces from autonomous agents. Set the technical roadmap and execution strategy: prioritize, design, ship, iterate, measure impact. Build production systems: services, pipelines, tooling, instrumentation, and automation that scale with frontier model usage. Partner deeply with Research and Product to translate evolving model capabilities into concrete tests, signals, and mitigations that can be deployed at scale. Drive strong engineering fundamentals: architecture, reliability, monitoring, performance, and operational excellence. Hire and grow an exceptional team across backend, data systems, and applied ML engineering domains as needed. Anticipate what breaks at scale as agentic workflows become more capable. You might thrive in this role if you: Experience building systems in adversarial, fast-evolving environments Are comfortable with ambiguity and novelty Have experience adjacent to security (e.g., abuse prevention, fraud, integrity, platform defense, auth/identity, malware/spam, adversarial environments) Communicate clearly and build trust quickly with senior stakeholders—pragmatic, collaborative, and calm under scrutiny. Significant experience
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Who are we? 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. We obsess over what we build. Each one of us is responsible for contributing to increasing the capabilities of our models and the value they drive for our customers. Cohere is a team of researchers, engineers, designers, and more, who are all passionate about their craft. We are a global technology company headquartered in Toronto with key offices in London, New York City, San Francisco, Montreal, Paris, Berlin and Seoul. Join us! As Cohere scales its enterprise AI platform and accelerates its position as a leader in sovereign AI solutions, we need a strategic Corporate Development leader to drive high-impact partnerships, M&A, and long-term business development. This role will focus on expanding Cohere’s ecosystem through strategic alliances, channel relationships, and targeted acquisitions that support our growth in regulated industries, government sectors, and global markets. Key Responsibilities M&A Strategy: Evaluate and execute acquisitions or investments in complementary technologies that strengthen our core platform, particularly in compute infrastructure, specialized AI capabilities, and regulatory compliance tools Lead due diligence processes with cross-functional teams to ensure technical integration feasibility and strategic alignment Manage post-merger integration to maximize value realization and revenue synergies Market Expansion: Support entry into new verticals and geographies through targeted collaborations with industry leaders and government partners Develop market entry strategies that address regulatory requirements and sover
Who are we? 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. We obsess over what we build. Each one of us is responsible for contributing to increasing the capabilities of our models and the value they drive for our customers. Cohere is a team of researchers, engineers, designers, and more, who are all passionate about their craft. We are a global technology company headquartered in Toronto with key offices in London, New York City, San Francisco, Montreal, Paris, Berlin and Seoul. Join us! As the Senior Director of Solutions Architecture for the Americas at Cohere, you will own the US and Canada commercial Solutions Architecture function. You will lead the team that turns enterprise interest in agentic AI into deployed, production systems, and you will be accountable for the technical win in the most competitive AI market in the world. The United States and Canada are our largest commercial opportunity, and this seat owns how we win them. You will take an established, distributed team of strong technical people and raise what it can do — setting the bar and establishing the operating rhythm that lets a team of generalists run consistent, industry-fluent plays at enterprise scale. You will set direction for the function, sit on the Solution Architecture leadership team alongside the regional leaders for EMEA and Asia Pacific, and contribute to company-wide decisions with your peers across Sales, Product and Engineering. In this role, you will: Lead and Scale the Organization: Build, coach and develop a high-performing Solutions Architecture organization across the US and Canada, and grow the senior technical talent
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Who are we? 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. We obsess over what we build. Each one of us is responsible for contributing to increasing the capabilities of our models and the value they drive for our customers. Cohere is a team of researchers, engineers, designers, and more, who are all passionate about their craft. We are a global technology company headquartered in Toronto with key offices in London, New York City, San Francisco, Montreal, Paris, Berlin and Seoul. Join us! Who are we? Cohere is at the forefront of AI innovation, building cutting-edge language models and AI systems. Our Finance team plays a critical role in supporting our rapid growth and ensuring operational excellence. We value technical expertise, collaborative problem-solving, and a commitment to accuracy and compliance. This role offers the opportunity to make a significant impact on our financial infrastructure while working at the intersection of finance and transformative technology. As we scale our business and navigate an evolving financial landscape, you'll play a pivotal role in driving operational excellence and serving as a key partner on accounting implications of major business decisions. In this role, you will: Lead and own the complete month-end close process, ensuring timely and accurate financial reporting across all entities Oversee all audit activities, partnering with external auditors and managing internal control documentation Collaborate on special projects including system implementations, process improvements, and acquisition integration efforts Direct general ledger operations, account reconciliations,
Who are we? 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. We obsess over what we build. Each one of us is responsible for contributing to increasing the capabilities of our models and the value they drive for our customers. Cohere is a team of researchers, engineers, designers, and more, who are all passionate about their craft. We are a global technology company headquartered in Toronto with key offices in London, New York City, San Francisco, Montreal, Paris, Berlin and Seoul. Join us! Why this team? The GPU Clusters team builds and operates the superclusters that train Cohere’s frontier models. We sit at the intersection of hardware, distributed systems, and AI research. We work with cloud providers, researchers, and other infrastructure teams on problems few companies get to take on. As an Engineering Manager, you’ll lead a team of engineers who care deeply about GPU infrastructure. You’ll set technical direction, grow people, and help the company scale a rapidly growing compute footprint. As an Engineering Manager, you will: Hire, mentor, and grow a team of GPU infrastructure engineers , including performance, career development, and technical guidance on hard infrastructure problems Own the technical roadmap for the fleet: how we deploy, operate, and scale Kubernetes clusters, including workload scheduling, hardware fault detection, and performance Partner with researchers and ML engineers so the training and inference stack works well on new GPU architectures Work with cross-functional stakeholders such as Capacity, Finance, Legal, Security, and other infrastructure teams on planning, cost, compliance, an
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Who are we? 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. We obsess over what we build. Each one of us is responsible for contributing to increasing the capabilities of our models and the value they drive for our customers. Cohere is a team of researchers, engineers, designers, and more, who are all passionate about their craft. We are a global technology company headquartered in Toronto with key offices in London, New York City, San Francisco, Montreal, Paris, Berlin and Seoul. Join us! Why this role? Cohere is building a Communications team worthy of a world-class technical organization, and Corporate Communications is at the center of that ambition. We're looking for a Director, Corporate Communications to own and evolve Cohere’s narrative globally as we grow to become the transatlantic leader in sovereign AI. This is a rare opportunity to build a comprehensive Corporate Communications function at a fast-growing company in the most dynamic space in technology. In this cross functional role, you will oversee critical functions including corporate, executive, policy, internal, crisis, and enterprise communications. You'll create the communications strategy that fuels our growth among governments and enterprises in the most highly-regulated industries. You’ll partner directly with C-Suite executives, nurture how we talk to customers, partners, and employees, and most importantly - build and lead a high-performing team that thrives off collaboration and scrapiness. This is a role for someone who likes to take big swings – and have fun doing it – where no job is too big or too small. As Director, Corporate Communi
About the team OpenAI’s Forward Deployed Engineering team partners with customers to turn research breakthroughs into production systems. We operate at the intersection of customer delivery and core platform development. About the role Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) lead complex end-to-end deployments of frontier models in production alongside our most strategic customers. You will own discovery, technical scoping, system design, build, and production rollout, partnering directly with customer engineering and domain teams. You will measure success through production adoption, measurable workflow impact, and eval-driven feedback that changes product and model roadmaps. You’ll work closely with our Product, Research, Partnerships, GRC, Security, and GTM teams. This role is based in San Francisco. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week. We offer relocation assistance. Travel up to 50% is required. In this role you will Own technical delivery across multiple deployments from first prototype to stable production Build full-stack systems that deliver customer value and sharpen how we learn Embed closely with customer teams, understand their needs, and guide adoption of what you build Scope work, sequence delivery, and remove blockers early Make trade-offs between scope, speed, and quality; adjust plans to protect delivery Contribute directly in the code when progress or clarity depends on it Codify working patterns into tools, playbooks, or building blocks that others can use Share field feedback that helps Research and Product understand where the models succeed and where they can improve Keep teams moving through clarity and follow-through You might thrive in this role if you Bring 5+ years of engineering or technical deployment experience that includes customer-facing work Have scoped and delivered complex systems in fast-moving or ambiguous environments Write and review production-grade code across frontend and backend using Python, JavaScript,
About the Role As a Sales Manager, Energy, you will build and lead a team of Account Directors focused on strategic growth across utilities, oil and gas, renewables, power generation, and energy services. The team will partner with complex organizations modernizing operations, improving reliability, accelerating the energy transition, and adopting enterprise AI responsibly at scale. You’ll help the team navigate regulated enterprise sales cycles, deepen relationships with business, technology, operations, engineering, security, and risk leaders, and drive adoption of OpenAI’s platform across safety-conscious, asset-intensive organizations. Key Responsibilities Recruit, develop, and lead a high-performing team of Energy Account Directors. Create a strong coaching culture through deal reviews, account strategy sessions, ride-alongs, and structured 1:1s. Define the Energy GTM strategy, including subsector segmentation, account prioritization, partner strategy, executive engagement, and territory planning. Drive disciplined pipeline generation, forecast accuracy, and operational rigor. Guide multi-stakeholder opportunities involving operations, engineering, digital, data, security, legal, risk, procurement, and executive leadership. Help customers translate AI and API capabilities into measurable outcomes across asset and field operations, grid and generation planning, engineering knowledge, customer service, commercial workflows, and enterprise productivity. Partner with Product, Solutions Architecture, Technical Success, Legal, Security, Finance, and policy experts to support responsible deployment. Provide structured feedback on customer requirements, integration blockers, reliability and governance needs, and emerging industry trends. What We’re Looking For 15+ years of enterprise sales, GTM, or sales leadership experience. Proven experience building and scaling enterprise sales teams responsible for complex strategic accounts and large revenue targets. Deep underst
About the team The AI Deployment Engineering team is responsible for helping developers and enterprises safely and effectively deploy OpenAI technologies in production. We act as trusted technical advisors and thought partners for customers, working side by side with their teams to identify high-value use cases, design practical architectures, and move from prototype to durable deployment. Cybersecurity is one of the most urgent domains where AI can help. Security teams are under pressure to reason across code, logs, infrastructure, tickets, alerts, and vulnerability data faster than ever. As frontier models become more capable, organizations need deep technical guidance on how to evaluate, validate, and safely deploy AI systems in security-critical workflows. About the role We are looking for a Cyber AI Deployment Engineer to partner with customers and help them apply OpenAI models, APIs, Codex, and agentic workflows to real cybersecurity use cases. You will work with CISOs, security executives, application security leaders, SOC teams, security engineering teams, and hands-on practitioners to identify where AI can create measurable security outcomes. This is a customer-facing technical role for someone who can move fluidly between executive strategy, practitioner-level cyber depth, and hands-on solution design. You will help customers evaluate and deploy workflows such as secure code review, vulnerability triage, threat modeling, remediation, SOC and incident response workflows, detection engineering, cloud security, GRC automation, and security validation. You will collaborate closely with Sales, Solutions Engineering, Product, Engineering, Research, and Security to turn customer needs into safe deployment patterns, reusable field assets, and product feedback. This role is based in our San Francisco HQ. We offer relocation support to new employees. In this role, you will: Deeply embed with strategic customers as the technical lead for AI-enabled cybersecurity work
About the Team OpenAI is building the infrastructure foundation for the next generation of AI. The Data Center Engineering team defines the strategy, reference architectures, technical requirements, and delivery standards for the large-scale data centers that support OpenAI research, products, and infrastructure partners. As a Data Center Controls Network Engineer, you will design, validate, and scale the controls and OT network architectures that support high-density AI data centers. You will work across controls systems, OT infrastructure, telemetry, commissioning, deployment, and operations, partnering with mechanical, electrical, IT/networking, security, and external delivery teams. About the Role We are seeking a mid to senior OT Network Engineer with a strong controls systems background to lead the design and operation of resilient, secure, and scalable OT network architectures for high-density AI data centers. This role translates compute, power, cooling, and operational requirements into practical OT network designs, evaluates vendor solutions, and drives technical decisions across controls infrastructure, telemetry, commissioning, and operations. The ideal candidate has strong hands-on experience in mission-critical OT environments, including industrial networking, virtualized infrastructure, and OT network operations, with expertise in routing, switching, segmentation, firewall policy, time synchronization, monitoring, and network lifecycle support. Key Responsibilities Define controls, automation, and OT network requirements for AI data center campuses. Develop reference architectures, engineering standards, and reusable design templates. Review and develop basis-of-design and functional design documents, including OT network diagrams, IP/VLAN schemes, telemetry architectures, data flow diagrams, and commissioning requirements. Design OT and infrastructure network architectures, including physical topology, logical topology, IP addressing, subnetting, VLA
About the Role As an Account Director for Higher Education in AMER, you will own strategic relationships with colleges, universities, and higher education systems as they move from AI experimentation to responsible, institution-wide transformation. You will work with presidents, provosts, CIOs, CTOs, academic and administrative leaders, researchers, security teams, and procurement stakeholders to define priority use cases, build the technical and governance foundation for deployment, and translate institutional goals into a multi-year AI transformation roadmap. You will own the commercial and customer journey end to end—from territory strategy, pipeline creation, and executive alignment through evaluation, procurement, deployment, adoption, consumption, value realization, and expansion. This is a deeply technical, consultative sales role. You will be expected to understand AI capabilities and limitations, integration patterns, data governance, privacy, security, and change management; partner effectively with technical experts; and remain accountable for measurable customer and revenue outcomes after signature. In this role, you will: Own and execute the AMER higher education territory and account strategy, prioritizing institutions where OpenAI can support meaningful, responsible, and scalable transformation. Create pipeline and lead complex, multi-threaded new-business and expansion opportunities from first engagement through procurement, deployment, adoption, and value realization. Engage credibly with presidents, provosts, CIOs, CTOs, academic leaders, researchers, administrators, security teams, legal, procurement, finance, and end-user champions. Lead cross-functional pursuit and account teams across Solutions Engineering, Customer Success, Product, Research, Security, Legal, and other functions to design evaluations, pilots, technical validation, executive business cases, production deployments, and adoption plans. Translate AI model and platform capabilities
About the Team OpenAI’s GTM Partnerships team builds a strategic, global partner ecosystem to accelerate customer success, enable responsible enterprise AI adoption, and drive durable growth in support of OpenAI’s mission. We work cross-functionally across Sales, Solutions, Product, Engineering, Security, Legal, Finance, Marketing, Operations, and Customer Success to translate strategic partnerships into measurable outcomes for customers. Global consulting and advisory partners are essential to helping enterprises move from AI strategy to production deployment. PwC brings global reach, deep industry and functional expertise, technology and transformation capabilities, and longstanding relationships with complex and regulated enterprises. This role will lead OpenAI’s global partnership with PwC and create the strategy, operating model, and field motions needed to turn that relationship into repeatable customer and commercial impact. This role is based in San Francisco, New York City, or Seattle. We use a hybrid work model of three days in the office per week. About the Role We are hiring a Partner Director, PwC to serve as the single accountable owner of OpenAI’s strategic relationship with PwC globally. You will define the partnership thesis and joint business plan, build executive alignment, activate PwC’s industry, advisory, technology, sales, and delivery organizations, and develop repeatable go-to-market motions that accelerate enterprise AI adoption. This is a strategic and hands-on leadership role. You will move fluidly between senior executive engagement, joint account and opportunity strategy, solution and delivery alignment, field enablement, governance, and day-to-day execution. Success requires a strong understanding of how a large, matrixed professional-services organization operates, commercial discipline, technical fluency, and the ability to align teams without relying on formal authority. The ideal candidate has led a high-impact global alliance with
About the Team OpenAI’s Forward Deployed Engineering team partners with healthcare organizations to deploy production AI systems across clinical, operational, and member-facing workflows. We work at the boundary of customer deployment and core platform development, using customer engagements to define repeatable architectures, evaluations, integrations, and operating standards for complex, regulated healthcare environments. About the Role We are hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) to own end-to-end deployments of our models within healthcare organizations, including payers, providers, health systems, and healthcare technology companies. You will lead technical discovery, architecture, implementation, evaluation, productionization, and handoff, translating complex customer workflows, data, infrastructure, and regulatory constraints into production AI systems. You will measure success through production adoption, measurable workflow impact, and evaluation loops that establish customer-specific benchmarks, acceptance criteria, and launch readiness. You’ll collaborate directly with customer technical and operational teams, alongside internal Business, Research, Product, Engineering, and Security partners, to deliver solutions and translate deployment learnings into product improvements. This role owns the technical solution; ownership of the commercial or executive relationship is not required. This role is based in San Francisco. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week. We offer relocation assistance. Travel up to 50% is required. In this role, you will: Own the technical solution end to end, from customer discovery and workflow scoping through architecture, hands-on implementation, evaluation, production deployment, adoption, and handoff. Partner credibly with customer engineers, operators, and domain experts to frame ambiguous problems, define scope, and translate payer, provider, or health-system workflows into technical requirements and mea
About the Role The AI Deployment Manager (ADM) - Pilots is a customer-facing role responsible for leading structured, time-bound enterprise AI pilots from initial scoping through final executive readout. This role is focused on helping customers evaluate OpenAI’s products in real-world contexts, identify high-value use cases, and generate clear, decision-ready signals tied to business value. You will design and lead pilot engagements that drive activation, sustained usage, and measurable impact across ChatGPT Enterprise, Codex, and adjacent workflows. This includes partnering with customer stakeholders to define success criteria, guiding users from experimentation to real adoption, and translating pilot outcomes into clear recommendations that support expansion or purchase decisions. This role requires strong judgment, the ability to operate in ambiguity, and a consistent focus on connecting technical capabilities to business outcomes. You will regularly engage both executive stakeholders and working teams, adapting your approach to meet customers where they are and move them forward. In this role, you will: Own the design and execution of enterprise AI pilots, including scoping, cohort definition, and success criteria aligned to a clear commercial decision. Identify and prioritize a small set of high-impact use cases that can generate credible signal within a 30–45 day pilot. Drive activation and sustained engagement across pilot cohorts through targeted enablement, office hours, and workflow-level coaching. Monitor pilot performance and adapt in real time, diagnosing gaps in engagement, use case traction, or stakeholder alignment. Translate pilot signals into clear, executive-ready recommendations, including whether and how the customer should expand. Navigate customer constraints such as security, data access, and competing tools while maintaining pilot momentum. Partner closely with ADs, SEs, and customer stakeholders to align on scope, risks, and next steps. Ca
ABOUT BASETEN Baseten powers mission-critical inference for the world's most dynamic AI companies, like Cursor, Notion, OpenEvidence, Abridge, Clay, Gamma and Writer. By uniting applied AI research, flexible infrastructure, and seamless developer tooling, we enable companies operating at the frontier of AI to bring cutting-edge models into production. We're growing quickly and recently raised our $1.5B Series F , led by Altimeter Capital, Conviction Partners, and Spark Capital. Join us and help build the platform engineers turn to to ship AI products. THE ROLE As the Head of IT at Baseten, you will build, scale, and secure our internal technology function to support our rapid growth. Reporting to our Chief Information Security Officer, you will lead and mentor a team of 5+ IT engineers, leading the charge to transition Baseten from startup-era IT to a highly automated, enterprise-ready IT organization. You will take full ownership of corporate IT infrastructure, Helpdesk operations, corporate identity management, device lifecycles, and vendor procurement. As we scale to support the world’s most dynamic AI companies, you will ensure our internal systems scale seamlessly with our headcount, providing a secure, frictionless, and world-class technology experience for all Baseten employees. RESPONSIBILITIES Team Leadership: Manage, mentor, and grow a team of IT engineers, fostering a high-performance culture focused on technical excellence and end-user satisfaction. Helpdesk Operational Excellence: Build a fast-response support function by establishing clear response SLAs, tracking employee satisfaction metrics, and formalizing on-call and incident response processes. Zero-Touch Automation: Architect and implement automated employee onboarding, offboarding, and role-based access changes through deep integrations across HRIS, MDM, and IAM systems. SaaS Management & Procurement: Establish comprehensive SaaS management processes to eliminate shadow IT, automate access w
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