Staff Software Engineer, GPU Infrastructure (HPC)
Company: Cohere
Location: San Francisco, CA (Remote)
Type: Full-time
Remote: Yes
Posted: 2026-05-02
About this role
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 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 ...