Lead Member of Technical Staff Inference Infrastructure

Toronto-founded enterprise AI company building foundation models, agentic AI, enterprise search, and private deployment products.

Toronto, Canada
About Cohere

Cohere provides enterprise-focused AI models and end-to-end products, including North for agentic workplace AI, Compass for enterprise search, and models for generation and retrieval. It supports private, VPC, and on-premises deployment options.

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Skills

About the Role

You will set technical direction for production model-serving infrastructure. You will lead the architecture and strategy for optimized NLP-model deployments, guide multi-cloud infrastructure decisions, design customer deployments, mentor engineers, establish engineering standards, and conduct senior technical reviews.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of engineering experience operating large-scale production infrastructure
  • Architecture and design experience with highly available distributed systems, Kubernetes, and GPU workloads
  • Kubernetes development, production coding, and support
  • GCP, Azure, AWS, OCI, and multi-cloud or hybrid-serving environments
  • Linux computing environments
  • Compute, storage, network resource, and cost management
  • GPU, TPU, or custom accelerator expertise
  • Distributed systems
  • Golang or C++
  • Technical leadership
  • Communication

Responsibilities

  • Lead architecture and strategy for optimized NLP-model production deployments
  • Guide multi-cloud infrastructure decisions
  • Design customized customer deployments
  • Mentor engineers and lead cross-functional initiatives
  • Set coding standards and conduct senior technical reviews

Benefits

  • Weekly lunch stipend of $75/£75 or local equivalent
  • Health and dental benefits, including a mental-health budget
  • RRSP matching, 401K, and pension scheme
  • Parental leave top-up for up to 6 months
  • Arts, culture, fitness, wellness, quality-time, and workspace-improvement benefits
  • Education and learning stipend
  • 6 weeks of paid vacation
  • Travel budget for other offices and an annual company offsite
  • Co-working benefit
  • $500 home-office stipend
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