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.
