Senior Software Engineer, Cohere
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Natural language processing AI platform
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Natural language processing AI platform
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
More information about location
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To build machines that understand the world, and to make them safely accessible to all.
Role
Who you are
- This role requires a strong foundation in distributed systems, search technologies, and cloud-native deployments
- You have strong Python skills and actual experience building or maintaining API services
- You've built search or recommendation systems using classical IR techniques and/or modern ML-based methods
- You're comfortable working with distributed systems and cloud deployments and can adapt to DevOps quirks and maintain dev environments
- You have experience optimizing performance and resource usage in high-throughput or high-volume systems
- You genuinely like talking to other humans—internal stakeholders, external customers—and solving their search problems
- If you want to work really hard on a glorious mission with teammates that want the same thing, Cohere is the place for you
What the job involves
- We're looking for an experienced software engineer to join our Search team
- You'll help build and optimize a next-generation search platform that uses both classical information retrieval (BM25) and modern AI tools to provide lexical and semantic search at scale
- This platform is used inside Cohere and by external customers, so you’ll get to collaborate with multiple teams — enabling both internal and external success stories
- Integrate state-of-the-art models into retrieval products in collaboration with Machine Learning Engineers and Research Scientists
- Design and maintain document ingestion pipelines for many types of data —and some guaranteed surprises when shovelling it into the system
- Extend Kubernetes manifests, Helm charts, and Terraform configs for scalable, cloud-native deployments
- Experiment with different indexing and nearest neighbor search strategies in OpenSearch (we hope you like vectors)
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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Insights
192% employee growth in 12 months
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 HQ
Grange Park, Toronto, ON
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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