Cohere

Senior Software Engineer, Search

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Not SpecifiedCompensation
Senior (5 to 8 years)Experience Level
Full TimeJob Type
UnknownVisa
Artificial Intelligence, Information Retrieval, Search Engines, AI & Machine LearningIndustries

Requirements

Candidates should possess strong Python skills and experience building or maintaining API services, along with a foundation in distributed systems, search technologies, and cloud-native deployments. Experience building or maintaining search or recommendation systems using classical IR techniques and/or modern ML-based methods is preferred, as is comfort working with distributed systems and cloud deployments and adapting to DevOps quirks.

Responsibilities

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will integrate state-of-the-art models into retrieval products in collaboration with Machine Learning Engineers and Research Scientists, design and maintain document ingestion pipelines, extend Kubernetes manifests, Helm charts, and Terraform configs for scalable deployments, and experiment with different indexing and nearest neighbor search strategies in OpenSearch. You will also be responsible for communicating with internal stakeholders and external customers to solve their search problems.

Skills

Python
API development
search systems
recommendation systems
classical IR techniques
ML-based methods
distributed systems
cloud deployments
performance optimization
communication

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.

Key Metrics

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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