Senior Software Engineer, Search

The Rundown AI, Inc.; Toronto; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Une entreprise innovante dans le domaine de l'IA recherche un ingénieur logiciel pour rejoindre l'équipe de recherche sur les systèmes de recherche. Vous vous joindrez à une équipe passionnée pour construire une plateforme de recherche de nouvelle génération, impliquant des techniques de récupération d'information classiques et des méthodes modernes d'IA. Ce rôle vous permettra de collaborer avec plusieurs équipes et de façonner l'avenir de l'IA.

Benefits

Culture et environnement de travail inclusifs

Repas et collations au bureau

Avantages santé et dentaire complets

Système de congé parental

Bénéfices pour l'enrichissement personnel

6 semaines de vacances

Qualifications

• Expérience démontrée dans le développement et la maintenance de services API.
• Connaissance des systèmes de recherche et recommandation, ainsi que des techniques IR.
• Compétence dans le travail avec des systèmes distribués et des déploiements cloud.

Responsibilities

• Intégrer des modèles à la pointe de la technologie dans des produits de recherche.
• Concevoir et maintenir des pipelines d'ingestion de documents.
• Expérimenter avec différentes stratégies de recherche et d'indexation.

Skills

Python

Systèmes distribués

Développement d'API

Optimisation de performance

Recherche et systèmes de recommandation

Communication

Tools

Kubernetes

OpenSearch

Terraform

Job description

Who are we?

Our mission is to scale intelligence to serve humanity. We’re training and deploying frontier models for developers and enterprises who are building AI systems to power magical experiences like content generation, semantic search, RAG, and agents. We believe that our work is instrumental to the widespread adoption of AI.

We obsess over what we build. Each one of us is responsible for contributing to increasing the capabilities of our models and the value they drive for our customers. We like to work hard and move fast to do what’s best for our customers.

Cohere is a team of researchers, engineers, designers, and more, who are passionate about their craft. Each person is one of the best in the world at what they do. We believe that a diverse range of perspectives is a requirement for building great products.

Join us on our mission and shape the future!

Why this role?

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.

This role requires a strong foundation in distributed systems, search technologies, and cloud-native deployments.

As a Software Engineer on the Search team, you will:

• 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).

You may be a good fit if:

• 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 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.

We value and celebrate diversity and strive to create an inclusive work environment for all. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and are committed to providing equal opportunities. Should you require any accommodations during the recruitment process, please submit an Accommodations Request Form, and we will work together to meet your needs.

Full-Time Employees at Cohere enjoy these Perks:

An open and inclusive culture and work environment

Work closely with a team on the cutting edge of AI research

Weekly lunch stipend, in-office lunches & snacks

Full health and dental benefits, including a separate budget to take care of your mental health

100% Parental Leave top-up for 6 months for employees based in Canada, the US, and the UK

Personal enrichment benefits towards arts and culture, fitness and well-being, quality time, and workspace improvement

Remote-flexible, offices in Toronto, New York, San Francisco and London and co-working stipend

️ 6 weeks of vacation

Note: This post is co-authored by both Cohere humans and Cohere technology.