Senior Software Engineer GPU Infrastructure HPC
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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.
Skills
About the Role
You will build and operate Kubernetes-based GPU and TPU superclusters across multiple clouds. You will optimize AI training infrastructure, resolve performance and reliability issues, create self-service researcher tools, improve observability and automation, and participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation.
Requirements
- Experience with GPU and TPU clusters
- Experience with distributed training frameworks including JAX, PyTorch, and TensorFlow
- Experience with high-performance computing environments
- Ability to deploy, manage, and troubleshoot Kubernetes clusters for AI workloads
- Proficiency in Python and Go
- Familiarity with Linux internals, RDMA networking, and ML workload performance optimization
- Experience collaborating with AI researchers or ML engineers
- Ability to identify bottlenecks, propose solutions, and drive impact
Responsibilities
- Build and manage Kubernetes-based GPU and TPU superclusters across multiple clouds
- Optimize infrastructure cost efficiency, reliability, and performance for AI workloads
- Identify and resolve infrastructure bottlenecks, performance degradation, and system failures
- Design self-service tools for researchers to monitor, debug, and optimize training jobs
- Translate AI research needs into scalable infrastructure solutions
- Advocate for observability, automation, and infrastructure as code
- Share expertise through code reviews, documentation, and cross-team collaboration
- Participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation
Benefits
- Equity
- Compensation for on-call schedules
- Weekly lunch stipend
- Health and dental benefits
- Mental health budget
- RRSP matching
- 401K
- Pension Scheme
- Parental leave top-up for up to six months
- Arts and culture benefit
- Fitness and wellness benefit
- Workspace improvement credit
- Six weeks of paid vacation
- Travel budget for other offices
- Annual company offsite
- Co-working benefit
- Home office stipend
