Staff Software Engineer, Inference Infrastructure

Jaide Health; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Open and inclusive culture

Weekly lunch stipend and snacks

Full health and dental benefits

Parental Leave top-up for 6 months

6 weeks of vacation

Remote-flexible work options

Job summary

Jaide Health is seeking experienced Members of Technical Staff to join their Model Serving team. This role involves developing and deploying high-performance AI platforms that power advanced NLP applications. You will enhance model delivery through optimized API endpoints by closely collaborating with various teams on critical projects.

The ideal candidate will have significant experience in engineering, especially with distributed systems. The company offers a hybrid work model and extensive benefits aimed at fostering a healthy and inclusive culture.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of engineering experience in production infrastructure.
• Experience designing large, highly available distributed systems.
• Familiarity with GPUs and TPUs in production environments.

Responsibilities

• Develop, deploy, and operate AI platform for Cohere's large language models.
• Interface with customers for customized deployments.

Skills

Engineering experience running production infrastructure

Designing highly available distributed systems

Kubernetes

GCP/Azure/AWS expertise

Linux-based computing environments

Collaboration and troubleshooting

Golang or C++

Resource and cost management

Job description

Location

San Francisco, Toronto, London, New York, Montreal

Employment Type

Full time

Location Type

Hybrid

Department

Inference Model Serving

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?

Are you energized by building high-performance, scalable and reliable machine learning systems? Do you want to help define and build the next generation of AI platforms powering advanced NLP applications? We are looking for Members of Technical Staff to join the Model Serving team at Cohere. The team is responsible for developing, deploying, and operating the AI platform delivering Cohere's large language models through easy to use API endpoints. In this role, you will work closely with many teams to deploy optimized NLP models to production in low latency, high throughput, and high availability environments. You will also get the opportunity to interface with customers and create customized deployments to meet their specific needs.

You may be a good fit if you have:

• 5+ years of engineering experience running production infrastructure at a large scale

• Experience designing large, highly available distributed systems with Kubernetes, and GPU workloads on those clusters

• Experience with Kubernetes dev and production coding and support

• Experience with GCP, Azure, AWS, OCI, multi-cloud on-prem / hybrid serving

• Experience in designing, deploying, supporting, and troubleshooting in complex Linux-based computing environments

• Experience in compute/storage/network resource and cost management

• Excellent collaboration and troubleshooting skills to build mission-critical systems, and ensure smooth operations and efficient teamwork

• The grit and adaptability to solve complex technical challenges that evolve day to day

• Familiarity with computational characteristics of accelerators (GPUs, TPUs, and/or custom accelerators), especially how they influence latency and throughput of inference.

• Strong understanding or working experience with distributed systems.

• Experience in Golang, C++ or other languages designed for high-performance scalable servers

If some of the above doesn’t line up perfectly with your experience, we still encourage you to apply!

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 the 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 up to 6 months
• 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, London and Paris, as well as a co-working stipend
• 6 weeks of vacation (30 working days!)