Cohere

Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Model Serving Infrastructure

San Francisco, California, United States

Not SpecifiedCompensation
Senior (5 to 8 years)Experience Level
Full TimeJob Type
UnknownVisa
Artificial Intelligence, AI & Machine Learning, NLP, Cloud InfrastructureIndustries

Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Model Serving

Employment Type: Full-Time Location Type: Remote

Who are we?

Our mission is to scale intelligence to serve humanity. We’re training and deploying frontier models for developers and enterprises who are building AI systems to power magical experiences like content generation, semantic search, RAG, and agents. We believe that our work is instrumental to the widespread adoption of AI.

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. We like to work hard and move fast to do what’s best for our customers.

Cohere is a team of researchers, engineers, designers, and more, who are passionate about their craft. Each person is one of the best in the world at what they do. We believe that a diverse range of perspectives is a requirement for building great products.

Join us on our mission and shape the future!

Why this role?

Are you energized by building high-performance, scalable and reliable machine learning systems? Do you want to help define and build the next generation of AI platforms powering advanced NLP applications? We are looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer 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 work closely with many teams to deploy optimized NLP models to production in low latency, high throughput, and high availability environments. You will also get the opportunity to interface with customers and create customized deployments to meet their specific needs.

You may be a good fit if you have:

  • 5+ years of engineering experience running production infrastructure at a large scale
  • Experience designing large, highly available distributed systems with Kubernetes, and GPU workloads on those clusters
  • Experience with Kubernetes dev and production coding and support
  • Experience with GCP, Azure, AWS, OCI, multi-cloud on-prem / hybrid serving
  • Experience in designing, deploying, supporting, and troubleshooting in complex Linux-based computing environments
  • Experience in compute/storage/network resource and cost management
  • Excellent collaboration and troubleshooting skills to build mission-critical systems, and ensure smooth operations and efficient teamwork
  • The grit and adaptability to solve complex technical challenges that evolve day to day
  • Familiarity with computational characteristics of accelerators (GPUs, TPUs, and/or custom accelerators), especially how they influence latency and throughput of inference.
  • Strong understanding or working experience with distributed systems.
  • Experience in Golang, C++ or other languages designed for high-performance scalable servers.

If some of the above doesn’t line up perfectly with your experience, we still encourage you to apply! If you want to work really hard on a glorious mission with teammates that want the same thing, Cohere is the place for you.

Diversity & Inclusion

We value and celebrate diversity and strive to create an inclusive work environment for all. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and are committed to providing equal opportunities. Should you require any accommodations during the recruitment process, please submit an Accommodations Request Form, and we will work together to meet your needs.

Perks

Full-Time Employees at Cohere enjoy these Perks:

  • 🤝 An open and inclusive culture and work environment
  • 🧑‍💻 Work closely with a team on the cutting edge of AI research
  • 🍽 Weekly lunch stipend, in-office lunches & snacks
  • 🦷 Full health and dental benefits, including a separate budget to take care of your mental health
  • 🐣 100% Parental Leave top-up for 6 months for employees based in Canada, the US, and the UK
  • 🎨 Personal enrichment benefits towards arts and culture, fitness and well-being, quality time, and workspace improvement
  • 🏙 Remote-flexible, offices in Toronto, New York, San Francisco and London and co-work

Company Locations

  • Toronto
  • New York
  • San Francisco
  • London

Skills

Distributed Systems
Kubernetes
GPU Workloads
API Development
High Availability
Scalability
Reliability
Machine Learning Infrastructure

Cohere

Provides NLP tools and LLMs via API

About Cohere

Cohere provides advanced Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools and Large Language Models (LLMs) through a user-friendly API. Their services cater to a wide range of clients, including businesses that want to improve their content generation, summarization, and search functions. Cohere's business model focuses on offering scalable and affordable generative AI tools, generating revenue by granting API access to pre-trained models that can handle tasks like text classification, sentiment analysis, and semantic search in multiple languages. The platform is customizable, enabling businesses to create smarter and faster solutions. With multilingual support, Cohere effectively addresses language barriers, making it suitable for international use.

Toronto, CanadaHeadquarters
2019Year Founded
$914.4MTotal Funding
SERIES_DCompany Stage
AI & Machine LearningIndustries
501-1,000Employees

Risks

Competitors like Google and Microsoft may overshadow Cohere with seamless enterprise system integration.
Reliance on Nvidia chips poses risks if supply chain issues arise or strategic focus shifts.
High cost of AI data center could strain financial resources if government funding is delayed.

Differentiation

Cohere's North platform outperforms Microsoft Copilot and Google Vertex AI in enterprise functions.
Rerank 3.5 model processes queries in over 100 languages, enhancing multilingual search capabilities.
Command R7B model excels in RAG, math, and coding, outperforming competitors like Google's Gemma.

Upsides

Cohere's AI data center project positions it as a key player in Canadian AI.
North platform offers secure AI deployment for regulated industries, enhancing privacy-focused enterprise solutions.
Cohere's multilingual support breaks language barriers, expanding its global market reach.

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