Senior Manager, AI

About the role

We're looking for a Senior Manager, AI who can lead and grow a high-performing engineering team with a strong product mindset. You'll own outcomes end-to-end—from the cohesive data layer and semantic foundations to the intelligent platform and agents serving health insurance plans covering over 15 million people. This is a remote-first role that may require travel to Boston, MA for new hire onboarding and occasional in-person team meetings and company events.

Responsibilities

• Lead, manage, and grow a distributed engineering team, fostering technical excellence, accountability, and a culture of mentorship and continuous improvement.
• Own the technical strategy and roadmap for Cohere's AI platforms, applications, and agents, partnering with Enterprise Architecture to deliver scalable, reliable, and observable systems.
• Design data, retrieval, and semantic architectures that provide AI agents with accurate, contextual information across complex healthcare data sources.
• Drive architecture for model serving, inference optimization, and production AI systems while establishing MLOps best practices for deployment, monitoring, experimentation, and performance.
• Partner with product, ML, data science, and architecture teams to translate business needs into scalable technical solutions.
• Drive agile delivery, define engineering quality and reliability metrics, and champion operational excellence, security, and HIPAA-compliant platform design.

Requirements

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years leading and developing high-performing engineering teams.
• Experience building and scaling production AI-powered applications and platforms, with expertise in machine learning infrastructure, model deployment, and operational excellence.
• Strong experience designing scalable data architectures and distributed systems that support intelligent applications.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals with experience building cloud-native applications using modern programming languages and infrastructure tooling.
• Proven ability to define technical strategy, establish engineering best practices, and influence technical direction across multiple teams.
• Excellent cross-functional leadership skills with experience partnering closely with Product, Data Science, Clinical, and Architecture teams. Healthcare experience is a plus.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Benefits

• Fully remote opportunity with about 5% travel
• Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance, plus Employee Assistance Program
• 401K retirement plan with company match; flexible spending and health savings account
• Flex Time Off plus company holidays
• Up to 14 weeks of paid parental leave
• Pet insurance

Pay

The salary range for this position is $220,000 to $245,000 annually as part of a total benefits package which includes health insurance, 401k, and bonus.

About Cohere Health

Cohere Health’s clinical intelligence platform and agentic AI-powered solutions connect health plans’ strategic goals and providers’ needs, optimizing the speed, cost, and quality of care. With an enterprise approach that streamlines payer-provider decision-making across the care continuum—including policy, prior authorization, payment accuracy, and more—the company improves collaboration and reduces burden, resulting in up to 8x ROI and 94% provider satisfaction. With the acquisition of ZignaAI, we’ve further enhanced our platform by launching our Payment Integrity Suite, anchored by Cohere Validate™, an AI-driven clinical and coding validation solution that operates in near real-time. By unifying pre-service authorization data with post-service claims validation, we’re creating a transparent healthcare ecosystem that reduces waste, improves payer-provider collaboration and patient outcomes, and ensures providers are paid promptly and accurately.