Lead Member of Technical Staff, Inference Infrastructure
Cohere · San Francisco · United States · New York · Toronto · Montreal
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Frontier labremotelead$235k–$325k
At a glance
Highlights
- Lead technical direction for the AI platform delivering Cohere's LLMs via API.
- Shape next-generation AI platforms powering advanced NLP applications at scale.
- Serve as key customer contact designing customized deployments for their needs.
What they offer
- Weekly $75 lunch stipend and daily lunch program in office
- Full health and dental benefits including mental health budget
- RRSP matching, 401K and Pension Scheme
- 100% parental leave top-up for up to 6 months
- 6 weeks of paid vacation
- $500 home office stipend plus co-working benefit for remote
- Annual enrichment, education and workspace improvement benefits
Ideal candidate
A seasoned infrastructure leader who energizes teams and raises the technical bar. You thrive on ambiguous, evolving challenges, mentor engineers generously, and care deeply about reliable, high-performance AI that solves real business problems.
Requirements
- 8+ years of engineering experience running production infrastructure at large scale with technical leadership
- Experience leading architecture and design of highly available distributed systems with Kubernetes and GPU workloads
- Deep expertise with Kubernetes development, production support and team-wide standards
- Experience across GCP, Azure, AWS, OCI and multi-cloud on-prem/hybrid serving environments
- Ability to design, deploy, support and troubleshoot complex Linux-based environments at scale
- Experience owning compute, storage, network resource and cost management and optimization
- Strong collaboration and communication skills with experience mentoring engineers and leading cross-functional initiatives
- Expertise in computational characteristics of accelerators to drive latency and throughput improvements
- Proficiency in Golang, C++ or other languages for high-performance scalable servers
- remote policy
- remote-friendly
Lab profile
About Cohere
Security-first enterprise AI company building frontier foundation models for business applications.
What they build
- Command foundation models
- Embed models
- Rerank models
Known for
- Security-first enterprise AI
- Frontier model training and deployment
- Business-focused end-to-end products
Key facts
- Founded in 2019
- Headquartered in Toronto, Canada