Lead Member of Technical Staff, Inference Infrastructure

Who are we?

Cohere is the leading security-first enterprise AI company. We build cutting-edge foundation AI models and end-to-end products that are designed to solve real-world business problems.

We’re training and deploying frontier models for enterprises who are building AI systems. We believe that our work is instrumental to the widespread adoption of AI and we are looking for folks that want to be part of that.

We obsess over what we build. Each one of us is responsible for contributing to increasing the capabilities of our models and the value they drive for our customers. Cohere is a team of researchers, engineers, designers, and more, who are all passionate about their craft.

We are a global technology company headquartered in Toronto with key offices in London, New York City, San Francisco, Montreal, Paris, Berlin and Seoul. Join us!

Why this role?

Are you energized by leading the design of high-performance, scalable and reliable machine learning systems? Do you want to set technical direction and help shape the next generation of AI platforms powering advanced NLP applications? We are looking for a Lead Member of Technical Staff to join the Model Serving team at Cohere. The team is responsible for developing, deploying, and operating the AI platform delivering Cohere's large language models through easy to use API endpoints. In this role, you will provide technical leadership across multiple teams, driving the architecture and strategy for deploying optimized NLP models to production in low latency, high throughput, and high availability environments. You will serve as a key point of contact for customers, leading the design of customized deployments to meet their specific needs, and mentoring engineers to raise the technical bar across the team.

You may be a good fit if you have:

8+ years of engineering experience running production infrastructure at a large scale, with a track record of technical leadership

Demonstrated experience leading the architecture and design of large, highly available distributed systems with Kubernetes and GPU workloads on those clusters

Deep expertise with Kubernetes dev and production coding and support, including setting team-wide standards and best practices

Extensive experience across GCP, Azure, AWS, OCI, and multi-cloud on-prem / hybrid serving environments, with the ability to guide strategic infrastructure decisions

Proven ability to lead the design, deployment, support, and troubleshooting of complex Linux-based computing environments at scale

Experience owning compute/storage/network resource and cost management at an organisational level, including optimisation strategies

Exceptional collaboration and communication skills, with experience mentoring engineers and leading cross-functional initiatives to build mission-critical systems

The grit and adaptability to both solve and guide others through complex technical challenges that evolve day to day

Strong expertise in the computational characteristics of accelerators (GPUs, TPUs, and/or custom accelerators), and how to leverage them to drive latency and throughput improvements at scale

Deep knowledge of distributed systems, with experience establishing patterns and practices across engineering teams

Proficiency in Golang, C++ or other languages designed for high-performance scalable servers, with the ability to set coding standards and conduct senior-level technical reviews

Full-Time Employees at Cohere enjoy these Perks:

A weekly lunch stipend of $75/£75 or equivalent in your local currency for lunch.

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.