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
- You care about bringing value to our users - not just the latest tech stack
- You are self-motivated, enjoy autonomy and proactively seek out problems to solve
- You’ve worked in both large enterprise and startups with multiple technology stacks
- You excel in fast-paced environments, and can execute while priorities and objectives are a moving target
- You have built applications that can run as either a managed service or self-hosted
- You have strong coding skills, and are comfortable working across the stack
- You shipped & supported Python applications in production environments
- 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
What the job involves
- As part of this role, you will work with a world-class team to build a platform that transforms how modern workers interact with LLMs today. Our mission is to ensure users come away inspired and excited to build with Cohere, and you will have the opportunity to make that happen
- Develop products that leverage LLMs & embedding models to improve employee productivity
- Create functionality that caters to enterprise user needs, with an emphasis on strong security and extendability
- Build applications that operate in environments with strict resource limits & minimal system dependencies
- Collaborate with machine learning engineers to utilize our models to their full potential
- Focus primarily on improving the backend & infrastructure, while operating as a generalist who picks up technologies needed to solve the problem at hand
- Work directly with end users to understand their pain points and resolve application failures
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 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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