Solutions Architect - UAE

In this role as a Solutions Architect (SA) for Cohere in the UAE, you will play an instrumental part in growing Cohere’s business in both the UAE and the wider MENA region. You will partner with account executives, partners, and our executive leadership team to communicate and demonstrate the value of our technology to the market, and build on the success of our flagship customers, like STC. SAs at Cohere sit at the cross-section of Forward Deployed Engineering and AI transformation. Responsibilities include 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.

Responsibilities

Leading the technical talk track on customer calls; Designing enterprise architectures for North deployments; Deep dives on customer queries and Cohere technology; Facilitating customer evaluations and pilots; Developing and documenting processes to enable the solutions architect team and adjacent teams to scale effectively within Cohere; Collaborating with the Product and Engineering teams to ensure our offering matches the customers’ needs; Working closely with our partners to develop a strategy for enabling and accelerating their customers

Requirements

3+ years of customer-facing technical pre/post sales Solutions Architect/Solutions Engineer/Sales Engineer/Digital Strategy Consultant (or similar) experience; A passion for Generative AI, and an understanding of strengths and weaknesses of Generative LLMs and AI technologies; Familiarity with foundational ML concepts (training, evaluation, etc.); Excellent communication skills - you can toggle seamlessly between presenting to CEOs, and getting in the weeds with technical audiences; Thrives within ambiguous and uncharted environments; You can identify and implement high-impact processes in unstructured environments; Comfortable working with Python and Assistive Coding tools; Must have native-level Arabic; Must be based in Dubai, UAE

Nice to have

2+ years architecting, deploying or consulting on NLP/AI/LLM Solutions

Benefits

Weekly lunch stipend of $75/£75 or equivalent in local currency; 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; Annual enrichment benefits for arts & culture, fitness/wellness, quality time, and 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 remote; Annual company offsite; Daily lunch program and snacks for those in the office; Co-working benefit for those not near an office; $500 home office stipend