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From the employer's careers site First seen 28 Oct 2026

Staff Software Engineer, Inference Infrastructure

Cohere San Francisco and 3 other locations
All 4 locations
  • San Francisco
  • Montreal
  • New York
  • Toronto
Hybrid staff full-time

Salary

$190K - $325K per year

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Description

Cohere is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join the Inference Infrastructure team. The successful candidate will work on building high-performance, scalable, and reliable machine learning systems.

Compensation

  • USA - California, New York and Washington: Base Salary $225K – $325K • Offers Equity
  • USA - All Other States: Base Salary $190K – $275K • Offers Equity
  • Canada: Base Salary CA$270K – CA$385K • Offers Equity

Job Description As a Staff Software Engineer, 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.

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, deploy, and operate large-scale distributed systems with Kubernetes and GPU workloads
  • Experience with Kubernetes dev and production coding and support
  • Troubleshoot and optimize system performance in complex Linux-based computing environments
  • Collaborate with teams to ensure smooth operations and efficient teamwork
  • Solve complex technical challenges that evolve day to day

Requirements

  • 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 GCP, Azure, AWS, OCI, multi-cloud on-prem / hybrid serving
  • Strong understanding or working experience with distributed systems
  • Experience in Golang, C++ or other languages designed for high-performance scalable servers

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
  • Annual enrichment benefits: Arts & culture, fitness/wellness, quality time, and a workspace improvement credit
  • Education & learning stipend for conferences, courses, and coaching
  • 6 weeks of paid vacation (30 working days)
  • Budget for traveling to other offices if you are remote, plus an annual company offsite

How and Where We Work

  • Cohere is remote-friendly, but we also have offices in Toronto, London, New York City, San Francisco, Montreal, Paris, Berlin and Seoul with more opening soon
  • For those in the office: a daily lunch program, plenty of snacks, and regular community and social events
  • For those not near an office: a co-working benefit so you can work alongside others in your city
  • Everyone receives a $500 home office stipend to set up your workspace properly

Skills

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