Data Foundations Engineer — AI Data Infrastructure

Cohere; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Weekly lunch stipend

Health and dental benefits

RRSP matching / 401K

Parental Leave top-up

Enrichment benefits

Education stipend

Vacation days

Travel to other offices / offsite

Job summary

Cohere is seeking a Data Engineer to help build the analytics backbone for our AI platform. You will work with researchers and engineers on customer-facing data experiences and scale data pipelines for enterprise needs.

Ideal candidates have strong Python/SQL skills, experience with Beam/Spark/Flink, and a knack for transforming unstructured data into performant datasets. Kubernetes and Java/Golang familiarity are a plus.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience working on production-grade data processing systems.
• Strong command of Python and SQL.
• Experience with distributed data processing frameworks such as Apache Beam, Spark, or Flink, alongside large-scale data system design.
• The ability to transform unstructured data into performant datasets in relational databases and blob storage.
• Familiarity with modern analytics stack tooling such as BigQuery, Airflow, or dbt.
• Knowledge of Java or Golang (nice to have).
• Experience with Kubernetes (nice to have).
• Genuine excitement about AI - you follow the research, have opinions, and enjoy being in the weeds.
• Comfort operating at the edge of what's known, with a desire to build something genuinely new rather than optimise what already exists.

Responsibilities

• Work directly on new customer experiences built on one of the most advanced AI systems in the world.
• Collaborate daily with researchers and engineers who are some of the best in the world at what they do.
• Run implementations end-to-end and see initiatives through to real outcomes.
• Partner across research, marketing, sales, and finance to help define how Cohere grows, with your recommendations feeding directly into products and strategy.

Skills

Python

SQL

Distributed data processing

Kubernetes

Tools

Apache Beam

Spark

Flink

BigQuery

Airflow

dbt

Job description

Cohere is seeking a Data Engineer to help build the analytics backbone for our AI platform. You will work with researchers and engineers on customer-facing data experiences and scale data pipelines for enterprise needs.

Ideal candidates have strong Python/SQL skills, experience with Beam/Spark/Flink, and a knack for transforming unstructured data into performant datasets. Kubernetes and Java/Golang familiarity are a plus.