Senior Search Infrastructure Engineer, Cohere
Natural language processing AI platform
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Natural language processing AI platform
501-1000 employees
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501-1000 employees
Company mission
To build machines that understand the world, and to make them safely accessible to all.
Role
Who you are
- You have experience supporting Opensearch or Elasticsearch clusters in a production environment
- You have production deploying and managing Kubernetes clusters
- You have solved problems while on-call for a production system
- You have hands-on coding experience developing services and automated tests
- You have experience scaling and debugging cloud-based infrastructure through GCP, AWS, or Azure
- You see mentorship, knowledge transfer, and review as essential prerequisites for a healthy team
What the job involves
- As a Senior Search Infrastructure Engineer (a Member of Technical Staff role on our Search team) you will work directly with Cohere’s Search Tools and Search Modeling teams to deploy and support the search platform, and solutions built on top it
- This will include assessing service stability, managing releases, and exploring ways to increase resiliency
- You will also be involved in sizing cluster hardware, optimizing the stack, and integrating with model serving backends
- In this role, you’ll be working daily with cutting edge search models, and providing the best experience for internal and external customers
- This work has extremely high impact, and will contribute directly to the success of Cohere
- Please Note: This role requires participating in a 24x7 on-call rotation, where you are compensated for time spent on-call
- Support Search Services for internal and external use cases, enabling stable and successful search experiences for our customers
- Automate observability and resilience. Enable all developers to troubleshoot and resolve problems relating to search
- Take steps required to ensure we hit defined SLOs, including participation in an on-call rotation
- Build strong relationships with internal developers and influence the Search and Infrastructure team’s roadmap based on their feedback
- Develop our team through knowledge sharing and an active review process
Our take
The AI industry biggest stakeholders insist that the next step in enhancing web experiences will be through natural language interactions. While this may be true, only companies with considerable resources can reasonably address the gap needed to bring NLP to the forefront of web integration. Cohere was founded to address this shortfall between NLP development, widespread usage, and the resources required.
Cohere works on building top-of-the-class NLP processing models and software which it makes available to customers through APIs and custom solutions. In a strategic move, the company has partnered with Google Cloud, giving them access to resources that will undoubtedly push the field of NLP forward. This allows Cohere to serve as middlemen by offering a wide range of customers a product built on unmatched technology.
AI is currently a worldwide talking point and so it is no surprise that Cohere has seen rapid development, and raised $270M in a 2023 funding round. The company plans to introduce a dialogue model that would resemble ChatGPT, however, in this case, its technology would be mainly accessible to developers and businesses.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jul 2024
$500m
SERIES D
Mar 2023
$270m
SERIES C
Total funding: $940m
Company benefits
- We cover 100% of premiums across health, dental, vision & travel
- We offer RRSP, 401K, and Pension Scheme contributions
- We offer lunch and fitness studio credits and a quality time fund which can be spent on things like dog walking and laundry services
- We want everyone who contributes to our success to get a ‘piece of the pie’
- Work Remote & PTO
- We know that some people work better at home, so we are remote-first, and sure that all meetings, events, and opportunities are set up for our distributed team
- Every employee at Cohere gets 6 weeks of paid time off & US and Canadian federal holidays, and we provide unlimited sick days
- All new parents (including those who adopt or go through a surrogate journey) are eligible to receive 100% salary for 6 months in Canada, the US, and the UK
- The decision and journey to having kids is different for each person and family. Part of our commitment to diversity is being able to support the widest variety of these scenarios as we can so we offer financial support for egg freezing and IVF for those in the US, Canada and the UK
- Every employee at Cohere receives an annual $2,000 education fund to use as they please
Company values
- We build for a positive future
- We build for the many
- We always stay curious
- Now never stops, and that's pretty fun
Company HQ
Grange Park, Toronto, ON
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Leadership
Aidan Gomez
(CEO)Has a PhD in Computer Science from Oxford University. Previously worked as a Researcher at Google (Brain) and FOR.ai
Ivan Zhang
(CTO)Previous experience working in research and engineering at For.ai, Cortex labs, Pressly and Ranomics.
Nick Frosst
(CTO)Previously worked as a Research Engineer at Google (Brain).
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