Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure at Cohere (New York, NY)
Cohere· New York, NY·
Role details
Weekly Lunch Stipend · Full Health And Dental Benefits · Mental Health Budget · 100% Parental Leave Top-Up For Up To 6 Months · Personal Enrichment Benefits · Co-Working Stipend · 6 Weeks Of Vacation
Cohere at a glance
Enterprise AI company building secure, privately deployable foundation models and an agentic workspace (North) for regulated businesses.
Cohere builds enterprise-grade AI foundation models (generation, embedding, reranking, and speech) plus North, a turnkey AI workspace, all designed to run privately inside a customer's own cloud or on-prem environment. Its whole differentiator is data sovereignty: enterprises deploy and customize the models without their data ever leaving their control.
~$1.5B raised · latest: Series D extension · $100M · Sept 2025 (following $500M at $6.8B in Aug 2025) · backed by Radical Ventures, Inovia Capital, AMD Ventures, NVIDIA
Summary
Build and maintain high-performance data infrastructure for AI training workloads, including petabyte-scale storage and networking. Collaborate with researchers to transform unstructured data into performant datasets across diverse backends like S3, GCS, and POSIX.
Job description
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 role?
We're building the data infrastructure behind some of the most demanding AI training workloads in the world, and we want sharp, curious people to help us do it. In this role, you'll build and maintain the high-performance data layer our Modeling teams rely on for training and evaluation jobs.
As a Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure, you will:
- Work directly on petabyte-scale storage infrastructure, and the networking and performance challenges that come with it.
- Collaborate daily with researchers and engineers who are some of the best in the world at what they do.
You may be a good fit if you have:
- 4+ years of experience working on data storage infrastructure
- Strong command of Python
- Kubernetes experience, especially on the storage side (Persistent Volumes, CSI drivers, etc.)
- The ability to transform unstructured data into performant datasets across diverse storage backends including S3, GCS, and POSIX
- Experience with distributed data processing frameworks such as Apache Beam, Spark, or Flink
- [Nice-to-have] Familiarity with modern analytics tooling such as BigQuery, Airflow, or dbt
- Genuine excitement about AI. You follow the research, have opinions, and enjoy being in the weeds
- Comfort operating at the edge of what's known, with a desire to build something genuinely new rather than optimize what already exists
FULL-TIME EMPLOYEES AT COHERE ENJOY THESE PERKS:
- A weekly lunch stipend of $75/£75 or equivalent in your local currency for lunch.
- Full health and dental benefits, including a separate budget for mental health.
- RRSP matching, 401K, Pension Scheme.
- 100% Parental Leave top-up for up to 6 months, for either parent.
- Annual enrichment benefits:
Arts & culture, fitness/wellness, quality time, and a workspace improvement credit.
Education & learning stipend for conferences, courses, and coaching.
- 6 weeks of paid vacation (30 working days!)
- Budget for traveling to other offices if you are remote, plus an annual company offsite.
HOW AND WHERE WE WORK:
- Cohere is remote-friendly, but we also have offices in Toronto, London, New York City, San Francisco, Montreal, Paris, Berlin and Seoul with more opening soon.
- For those in the office: a daily lunch program, plenty of snacks, and regular community and social events.
- For those not near an office: a co-working benefit so you can work alongside others in your city.
- Everyone receives a $500 home office stipend to set up your workspace properly.
If any of the above doesn’t line up exactly with your experience, we still encourage you to apply.
We 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 docs.google.com/edit, and we will work together to meet your needs.
We may use AI-enabled tools to screen and assess applicants against the criteria for this position. This helps our recruiters identify potentially qualified candidates, but it doesn't limit the applications our recruiters may review or consider.
Beware of Scams: Cohere will never ask for payment or third-party services (e.g., CV writing) as part of our hiring process. All legitimate roles are listed on the Cohere careers page and LinkedIn only, with all communications from Cohere employees coming from an @cohere.com or @cw.cohere email alias. If jobs are viewed on other sites then please verify these through our official careers cohere.com/careers page.
Why work at Cohere
- Culture: “Flexible, collaborative, and built on trust.” Values of Autonomy, Openness, and Momentum.
- Remote/hybrid: Globally dispersed company that supports remote work; employees can work from anywhere. Offices in seven cities with catered lunches, snacks, and social events. Teams have budgets for offsite gatherings.
- Benefits:
- Six weeks’ paid vacation
- Equity/stock options (all co-owners)
- Retirement benefits
- Six months fully paid parental leave (including adoption/surrogacy)
- Medical, health insurance, vision, travel coverage (varies by location)
- Mental health provider access
- Fertility/family planning financial support
- Monthly fitness/wellness allowance
- $2,000 annual education benefit for conferences/courses
- Annual arts & culture allowance
- Monthly quality time allowance
- One-time workplace improvement stipend for home office
- Monthly co-working benefit for remote employees
- Weekly meal stipend for remote workers
- Interview process: Clear and collaborative – application review, recruiter conversation, take-home assignment, hiring manager, final team rounds. Video conference-friendly.