--- title: 'Software Engineer, ML Workload Platform at Cohere' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/software-engineer-ml-workload-platform-cohere-canada-rwk1b14pwaxj' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-11-11' --- # Software Engineer, ML Workload Platform at Cohere - **Company:** [Cohere](https://feeny.ai/companies/cohere) - **Location:** Canada - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-11-06 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-11 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/cohere/8f60b8e2-55b9-4258-a4cc-813273161f97 ## 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 team? Internal Infrastructure builds the infrastructure and tools used to train, evaluate, and serve Cohere's foundation models. You will work with AI researchers and ML engineers on stability, scalability, and observability. The work accelerates the models behind Cohere's platform, North. You will build the platform that runs training, evaluation, and reinforcement-learning workloads: job lifecycle, scheduling, workload networking, and the storage those jobs depend on. The role includes a compensated 24x7 on-call rotation. ## What you will do - Own the platform that schedules and runs training, evaluation, and reinforcement-learning jobs on Kubernetes: who gets capacity, what happens when a job fails, and how a researcher finds out whether the platform caused it. - Build the networking and runtime isolation those workloads need, including agent and sandbox environments. - Work with the data infrastructure team on storage for checkpoints and other training artifacts. - Troubleshoot production failures and performance problems, and leave the system easier to operate than you found it. - Build automation, infrastructure-as-code, and observability so the platform stays maintainable. We hire at more than one level. We set level based on the scope you've owned and how independently you drive work. You may be a good fit if you have - Run a job platform, batch system, or Kubernetes controllers in production. Scheduling, queues, and multi-tenant fairness are central to this work. - Shown distributed systems judgment: retries, partial failure, and knowing what not to automate. - Worked on ML training workflows, RL sandboxes, container networking (CNI), or checkpoint storage at scale. Direct GPU-cluster experience is a plus. - Written software in Python or Go. You would rather extend a solid open-source project than rebuild it. - Worked with researchers, ML engineers, or another team whose goals were not identical to yours. - Found a bottleneck, proposed a fix, and driven it in a fast-moving environment. If this does not line up exactly with your experience, we still encourage you to apply. 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](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/12a6IrLdF3kI2nonKSr4tiFuz18rLQbaeYV-JM9L4o9Q/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](https://cohere.com/careers) page. ## About Cohere ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Cohere builds enterprise-grade AI foundation models and secure, customizable AI solutions that allow businesses to deploy generative, retrieval, and speech capabilities on their own infrastructure. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series D, raised ~$1B as of 2024) - **Headquarters**: Toronto, Canada (with offices in New York, London, San Francisco, Montreal, Paris, Seoul) - **Founded**: 2019 - **Founders**: Aidan Gomez (CEO), Nick Frosst, Ivan Zhang ## Core Business - Primary industry: Enterprise AI / Artificial Intelligence - Target customers: B2B, primarily large enterprises and public sector organizations across finance, healthcare, manufacturing, telecommunications, energy, and government - Mission statement: “Do whatever it takes to scale intelligence to serve humanity” – AI’s highest purpose is to enhance human wellbeing by empowering businesses to scale innovation, boost productivity, and drive progress. ## Products & Services - **Command**: High-performance generative model with agentic capabilities, reasoning, tool orchestration, and multimodal intelligence – supports 49 languages. - **Rerank**: Relevance-based search optimization that personalizes and refines results based on user needs. - **Embed**: Semantic text representation for accurate document comparison and fast, scalable retrieval. - **Transcribe**: High-fidelity speech-to-text engine supporting 14 languages, robust to real-world conversational environments. - **North**: Turnkey AI workplace platform launched in 2025, offering agentic capabilities and advanced retrieval to automate tasks and surface insights securely grounded in enterprise data. - **Cohere Labs**: Open science initiative with 4,500+ community members and 100+ published research papers. ## Competitive Advantages - Full data sovereignty and security: Models can be deployed in a virtual private cloud (VPC), on-premises, or in a dedicated Cohere-managed Model Vault. - Highly customizable: Clients can train on proprietary data and build unique AI solutions for specific use cases, infrastructure, and languages. - Multi-layered protection with industry-certified security standards. - Strong open science foundation (Cohere Labs) and research output (100+ papers). ## Strategic Focus - Agentic AI for enterprise: Unified reasoning, tool orchestration, and multimodal intelligence in a single model. - Sovereign AI workplace: Ensuring enterprises maintain control over their data and infrastructure. - Expanding the North platform as a turnkey productivity solution. - Global expansion with offices in North America, Europe, and Asia. ## Why Work Here - **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. ## Sources 1. [cohere.com](https://cohere.com/) – Product overview, security, and industry solutions 2. [cohere.com/about](https://cohere.com/about) – Company history, founders, mission, funding, team 3. [cohere.com/careers](https://cohere.com/careers) – Benefits, culture, FAQs, remote policy 4. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/cohere](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/cohere) – Current job openings and internships 5. [linkedin.com/company/cohere-ai](https://www.linkedin.com/company/cohere-ai) – Company page, acquisitions, revenue reference ## Other roles at Cohere - [Managing Editor](https://feeny.ai/job/managing-editor-cohere-united-states-xv2fanj77pwf) — United States - [Data Partnerships Coordinator (1-year contract)](https://feeny.ai/job/data-partnerships-coordinator-1-year-contract-cohere-toronto-q4rg2y4smbre) — Toronto, Canada - [Adoption Specialist - Infrastructure & Agentic](https://feeny.ai/job/adoption-specialist-infrastructure-agentic-cohere-toronto-67bc72gf8g7q) — Toronto, Canada - [Senior Manager, GTM & Revenue Finance](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-manager-gtm-revenue-finance-cohere-united-states-wbjg0h2wxcas) — United States - [Staff Software Engineer, Agentic Analytics](https://feeny.ai/job/staff-software-engineer-agentic-analytics-cohere-united-states-57dec6nq01pv) — United States - [Manager, Corporate Accounting](https://feeny.ai/job/manager-corporate-accounting-cohere-san-francisco-5xtdtyhtpyt6) — San Francisco, CA - [Partner Development Manager - AWS](https://feeny.ai/job/partner-development-manager-aws-cohere-united-states-ha5seaev4f1g) — United States - [VP of Services, Customer Success & Support](https://feeny.ai/job/vp-of-services-customer-success-support-cohere-toronto-pdqq3rew3eh3) — Toronto, Canada - [Software Engineer, ML Ops](https://feeny.ai/job/software-engineer-ml-ops-cohere-london-h8awtd985t22) — London, United Kingdom - [Software Engineer, GPU Infrastructure](https://feeny.ai/job/software-engineer-gpu-infrastructure-cohere-seattle-nr3bazeqvr5c) — Seattle, WA