Engineering Manager, Cohere
Cohere APIs and DevEx
CA$300-375k
Offers Equity
Enterprise-grade AI solutions for real-world business problems
Be an early applicant
Enterprise-grade AI solutions for real-world business problems
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
CA$300-375k
Offers Equity
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To empower businesses to scale innovation, boost productivity, and drive progress that reaches everyone.
Role
Who you are
- You have experience managing engineering teams and a proven track record of delivering high-quality software
- You have experience shipping products with a large number of stakeholders
- You’re comfortable with the front and back end of the stack, and have previously worked with Go, Next.js, TypeScript, and React
- You are passionate about recruiting and growing people and teams
- You are passionate about building rapport with your team and you prioritize 1:1s
- You have excellent communication skills and believe that documentation is a great way to get feedback and discuss technical implementations and designs
- You have the ability to take complex needs and goals and develop easy to understand explanations for all audiences
- You’re excited about AI and have the motivation to scale a company
- If any of the above doesn’t line up exactly with your experience, we still encourage you to apply
What the job involves
- In this role, you will manage the team that owns the Cohere inference APIs and SDKs, as well as the Cohere Dashboard, where customers can access our models, manage teams, and audit billing
- You will collaborate with internal partners to craft a delightful, intuitive, and unified experience across everything the Cohere APIs and Cohere Dashboard have to offer
- As a hands-on leader, you will shift seamlessly between roles as mentor, strategist, and technologist to guide the team toward shared success
- Manage, mentor, and grow a talented and enthusiastic team of backend and full-stack software engineers
- Participate in model releases and develop new API capabilities
- Work closely with Modelling and Model Serving teams
- Collaborate with UX designers to ensure customers have an easy and delightful time managing teams, API keys, billing and configurations
- Oversee and contribute to open source projects
Our take
Many businesses are now faced with the challenge of adopting advanced AI safely and securely. While AI tools like ChatGPT are making headlines, companies (especially those in regulated industries such as banking, telecoms, or government services) worry about privacy, compliance, and control over their sensitive data. Cohere addresses these concerns by offering AI solutions that can be trained on a company's internal data and, importantly, run on their own infrastructure rather than relying on external cloud providers. And in a world where data breaches and regulatory scrutiny are constant threats, this focus on trust and security is key.
In a competitive landscape dominated by giants like OpenAI, Google, and Elon Musk's xAI, Cohere is setting itself apart by targeting businesses exclusively. Its approach has earned it contracts with some big names, like Royal Bank of Canada, Fujitsu, LG, Oracle, and Dell. By focusing on reliability and enterprise adoption rather than viral consumer appeal, Cohere has carved out a strong niche for itself.
This isn't going unnoticed either, as the company recently raised $500M, boosting its valuation to $6.8B, and brought on board top talent from Meta and Uber to strengthen its leadership team. Alongside this, it's doubled its annual recurring revenue to $100M in 2025 and is aiming to hit $200M by year-end. With its North platform for AI agents and a lean cost structure compared with larger rivals, Cohere is very much ready for more growth.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
192% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Apr 2026
$600m
SERIES E
Sep 2025
$100m
LATE VC
Total funding: $2.1bn
Company benefits
- Six weeks’ paid vacation
- Equity / stock options
- RRSP, 401(k), and Pension Scheme contributions
- Coverage for 100% of your insurance premiums across health, dental, vision, and travel
- Additional coverage for accessing mental health providers/services
- Six months of fully paid parental leave, including adoption and surrogacy
- Financial support for egg freezing and IVF in Canada and the UK
- A monthly fitness and wellness allowance
- Globally dispersed company that supports a remote work culture
- A $2,000 annual education benefit for professional development
- A weekly stipend for meals when working remotely and catered lunch when working from one of our global offices
- A monthly arts and culture allowance
- A monthly quality time allowance
Company HQ
Grange Park, Toronto, ON
Leadership
Aidan Gomez
(Co-Founder & CEO)Aidan received a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Oxford in 2024 and has served as Cohere's CEO since co-founding the company in 2019.
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