Senior Software Engineer Search
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Who are we
Our mission is to scale intelligence to serve humanity. Were 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 whats 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
Were looking for an experienced software engineer to join our Search team. Youll help build and optimize a nextgeneration search platform that uses both classical information retrieval (BM25 and modern AI tools to provide lexical and semantic search at scale. This platform is used inside Cohere and by external customers so youll get to collaborate with multiple teams enabling both internal and external success stories.
This role requires a strong foundation in distributed systems search technologies and cloudnative deployments.
As a Software Engineer on the Search team you will:
Integrate stateoftheart models into retrieval products in collaboration with Machine Learning Engineers and Research Scientists.
Design and maintain document ingestion pipelines for many types of data and some guaranteed surprises when shovelling it into the system.
Extend Kubernetes manifests Helm charts and Terraform configs for scalable cloudnative deployments.
Experiment with different indexing and nearest neighbor search strategies in OpenSearch (we hope you like vectors).
You may be a good fit if:
You have strong Python skills and actual experience building or maintaining API services.
Youve built search or recommendation systems using classical IR techniques and/or modern MLbased methods.
Youre comfortable working with distributed systems and cloud deployments and can adapt to DevOps quirks and maintain dev environments.
You have experience optimizing performance and resource usage in highthroughput or highvolume systems.
You genuinely like talking to other humansinternal stakeholders external customersand solving their search problems.
If some of the above doesnt line up perfectly with your experience we still encourage you to apply! If you want to work really hard on a glorious mission with teammates that want the same thing Cohere is the place for you.
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 an Accommodations Request Form and we will work together to meet your needs.
FullTime 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 inoffice lunches & snacks
Full health and dental benefits including a separate budget to take care of your mental health
100 Parental Leave topup for 6 months for employees based in Canada the US and the UK
Personal enrichment benefits towards arts and culture fitness and wellbeing quality time and workspace improvement
Remoteflexible offices in Toronto New York San Francisco and London and coworking stipend
6 weeks of vacation
Note: This post is coauthored by both Cohere humans and Cohere technology.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
