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Lead Member of Technical Staff, Inference Infrastructure

Cohere · San Francisco · United States · New York · Toronto · Montreal

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Frontier labremotelead$235k–$325k
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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
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