Software Engineer, ML Workload Platform

Wwshemi; Canada; Remote; CAD 250,000 - 400,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Lunch stipend

Health benefits

Parental leave

Vacation days

Home office stipend

Learning stipend

Job summary

Cohere is a security-first enterprise AI company enabling cutting-edge foundation models and end-to-end products. This remote-friendly role focuses on internal infrastructure to run ML training workloads on Kubernetes, improving stability, scalability, and observability for researchers and engineers.

You will build the platform that schedules training, evaluation, and reinforcement-learning jobs, with sandboxing, storage, and automation to keep the system maintainable. Equity is offered.

Qualifications

• Experience operating a platform for ML training workloads in production.
• Proficiency with Python or Go and Linux-based environments.
• Knowledge of containers, Kubernetes, and multi-tenant isolation.

Responsibilities

• Own the platform scheduling and execution of training, evaluation, and RL jobs on Kubernetes.
• Build networking and runtime isolation for workloads, including agent and sandbox environments.
• Collaborate on storage for checkpoints and training artifacts.
• Troubleshoot production issues and improve operability and reliability.
• Develop automation, IaC, and observability for maintainable platforms.

Skills

Kubernetes

Python

Go

Distributed systems

ML training workflows

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

Cohere Remote - Canada; United States Posted 2026-11-06

This listing's locations Remote - Canada; United States

Employment Full-time

Workplace Remote

Compensation USA - California, New York and Washington: 200000–325000 (period not stated) • Offers Equity; USA - All Other States: 175000–290000 (period not stated) • Offers Equity; Canada: CAD 250000–400000 (period not stated) • Offers Equity ranges by location (3)

• USA - California, New York and Washington: Base Salary $200K – $325K • Offers Equity
• USA - All Other States: Base Salary $175K – $290K • Offers Equity
• Canada: Base Salary CA$250K – CA$400K • Offers Equity

Cohere is the leading security-first enterprise AI company. We build cutting-edge foundation AI models and end-to-end products that are designed to solve real-world business problems.

We’re training and deploying frontier models for enterprises who are building AI systems. We believe that our work is instrumental to the widespread adoption of AI and we are looking for folks that want to be part of that.

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. Cohere is a team of researchers, engineers, designers, and more, who are all passionate about their craft.

We are a global technology company headquartered in Toronto with key offices in London, New York City, San Francisco, Montreal, Paris, Berlin and Seoul. Join us!

Why this team?

Internal Infrastructure builds the infrastructure and tools used to train, evaluate, and serve Cohere's foundation models. You will work with AI researchers and ML engineers on stability, scalability, and observability. The work accelerates the models behind Cohere's platform, North.

You will build the platform that runs training, evaluation, and reinforcement-learning workloads: job lifecycle, scheduling, workload networking, and the storage those jobs depend on. The role includes a compensated 24x7 on-call rotation.

What you will do

• Own the platform that schedules and runs training, evaluation, and reinforcement-learning jobs on Kubernetes: who gets capacity, what happens when a job fails, and how a researcher finds out whether the platform caused it.
• Build the networking and runtime isolation those workloads need, including agent and sandbox environments.
• Work with the data infrastructure team on storage for checkpoints and other training artifacts.
• Troubleshoot production failures and performance problems, and leave the system easier to operate than you found it.
• Build automation, infrastructure-as-code, and observability so the platform stays maintainable.

We hire at more than one level. We set level based on the scope you've owned and how independently you drive work.

You may be a good fit if you have

• Run a job platform, batch system, or Kubernetes controllers in production. Scheduling, queues, and multi-tenant fairness are central to this work.
• Shown distributed systems judgment: retries, partial failure, and knowing what not to automate.
• Worked on ML training workflows, RL sandboxes, container networking (CNI), or checkpoint storage at scale. Direct GPU-cluster experience is a plus.
• Written software in Python or Go. You would rather extend a solid open-source project than rebuild it.
• Worked with researchers, ML engineers, or another team whose goals were not identical to yours.
• Found a bottleneck, proposed a fix, and driven it in a fast-moving environment.

Full-Time Employees at Cohere enjoy these Perks:

• A weekly lunch stipend of $75/£75 or equivalent in your local currency for lunch.
• Full health and dental benefits, including a separate budget for mental health.
• 100% Parental Leave top-up for up to 6 months, for either parent.

Arts & culture, fitness/wellness, quality time, and a workspace improvement credit.

Education & learning stipend for conferences, courses, and coaching.

• 6 weeks of paid vacation (30 working days!)
• Budget for traveling to other offices if you are remote, plus an annual company offsite.

How and Where We Work:

• Cohere is remote-friendly, but we also have offices in Toronto, London, New York City, San Francisco, Montreal, Paris, Berlin and Seoul with more opening soon.
• For those in the office: a daily lunch program, plenty of snacks, and regular community and social events.
• For those not near an office: a co-working benefit so you can work alongside others in your city.
• Everyone receives a $500 home office stipend to set up your workspace properly.

We 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.

We may use AI-enabled tools to screen and assess applicants against the criteria for this position. This helps our recruiters identify potentially qualified candidates, but it doesn't limit the applications our recruiters may review or consider.