Remote Senior/Staff Backend Engineer, North

Description:

• Cohere is on a mission to scale intelligence to serve humanity by training and deploying frontier models for developers and enterprises.
• The company focuses on building AI systems that enhance experiences such as content generation, semantic search, RAG, and agents.
• Cohere values hard work and fast-paced execution to benefit its customers.
• The team consists of researchers, engineers, designers, and more, all passionate about their craft and committed to diversity.
• The Senior/Staff Backend Engineer will build and ship features for North, Cohere's AI workspace platform.
• Responsibilities include developing autonomous agents that interact with sensitive enterprise data and writing minimal code for low-resource environments with stringent deployment mechanisms.
• The role requires collaboration with researchers to productionize state-of-the-art models and techniques.

Requirements:

• Candidates must have extensive experience shipping Python in production.
• Experience in building and deploying highly performant client-side or server-side RAG/agentic applications to millions of users is essential.
• Strong coding abilities are required, with comfort in working across the stack and the ability to read, understand, and fix issues outside the main code base.
• Experience in both large enterprises and startups is preferred.
• Candidates should excel in fast-paced environments and be able to execute while priorities and objectives are changing.

Benefits:

• Cohere offers an open and inclusive culture and work environment.
• Employees work closely with a team at the forefront of AI research.
• A weekly lunch stipend, in-office lunches, and snacks are provided.
• Full health and dental benefits are included, along with a separate budget for mental health care.
• Employees based in Canada, the US, and the UK receive a 100% parental leave top-up for 6 months.
• Personal enrichment benefits are available for arts and culture, fitness and well-being, quality time, and workspace improvement.
• The position is remote-flexible, with offices in Toronto, New York, San Francisco, and London, along with a co-working stipend.
• Employees enjoy 6 weeks of vacation.