Cohere
Senior Software Engineer, GPU Infrastructure (HPC)
- Employment type
- Full-time
- Workplace type
- Hybrid
- Location
- Canada · United States
- Published
- Sep 4, 2026
- Last checked
- Oct 26, 2026
About this role
WHO ARE WE?
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?
The internal infrastructure team is responsible for building world-class infrastructure and tools used to train, evaluate and serve Cohere's foundational models. By joining our team, you will work in close collaboration with AI researchers to support their AI workload needs on the cutting edge, with a strong focus on stability, scalability, and observability. You will be responsible for building and operating superclusters across multiple clouds. Your work will directly accelerate the development of industry-leading AI models that power Cohere's platform North.
Please Note: All of our infrastructure roles require participating in a 24x7 on-call rotation, where you are compensated for your on-call schedule.
As a Staff Software Engineer, you will:
- Build and scale ML-optimized HPC infrastructure: Deploy and manage Kubernetes-based GPU/TPU superclusters across multiple clouds, ensuring high throughput and low-latency performance for AI workloads.
- Optimize for AI/ML training: Collaborate with cloud providers to fine-tune infrastructure for cost efficiency, reliability, and performance, leveraging technologies like RDMA, NCCL, and high-speed interconnects.