Sr. AI Engineer

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer - AI to join our Engineering team. In this role, you will build the intelligent agents and applications serving health insurance plans covering over 15 million people. You'll partner closely with product, data science, and clinical teams to build the foundation that transforms how clinical intelligence is delivered at scale. This is an opportunity to make a direct impact on healthcare outcomes while working with modern technologies in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

- Agent Development: Participate in the development, evaluation, and deployment of Cohere’s AI-powered agents and applications.

- Data & Retrieval Architecture: Design data and retrieval architectures that give AI agents the right context across diverse healthcare sources.

- Hands-On Engineering: Design, review, and own high-quality agentic code — leading releases, production deployments and on-call support.

- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with ML/DS teams, product teams, and architects to understand requirements and ensure systems meet business needs.

- Security & Compliance: Ensure all agentic components comply with healthcare security and privacy regulations (e.g., HIPAA) and adhere to industry best practices for security.

- Agile Development: Contribute to sprint planning, execution, and retrospectives, driving efficiency and velocity within the engineering team and collaborating closely with stakeholders to align with product goals and business priorities.

ISMS roles and responsibilities

- Good knowledge of Information practices.

- Assist the manager in all the information security activities implementation and maintenance process.

- Ensuring the team and imparted with Competence related to Information security

- Responsible for implementation of security policies and procedures and report any issues to the Information Security Manager.

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field; or equivalent experience.

- 6+ years of experience in the software development lifecycle, with demonstrated experience working with popular agent frameworks and language models.

- Expertise in one or more modern languages for development. Experience with any cloud platform, CI/CD pipelines, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools is a plus.

- Experience with AI architectures, Multi-agent systems, RAG, and Evaluation frameworks.

- Experience shaping engineering standards, frameworks, or libraries used across multiple teams

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field; or equivalent experience.

- Familiarity with human-in-the-loop system design and AI safety considerations in production.

- Experience with graph-based or multi-modal data retrieval in the context of AI reasoning.

Ability to commute/relocate

- Hyderabad, Telangana: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Preferred)