Toronto; Canada; United States Remote (Global) Employment

Cohere is hiring a Senior Software Engineer, Agent Infrastructure

About the Role

The role involves developing core infrastructure for AI-driven agent systems, ensuring robustness, scalability, and seamless interaction between components in production environments.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement distributed systems that support agent-based AI applications
  • Build reliable, low-latency services to enable real-time decision-making
  • Collaborate with research teams to productionize experimental models
  • Optimize infrastructure for high availability and fault tolerance
  • Develop monitoring and observability tools for agent behavior
  • Improve deployment pipelines for faster and safer releases
  • Work on scaling backend systems to handle growing user demand
  • Ensure secure handling of data across agent interactions
  • Troubleshoot complex issues in production environments
  • Contribute to architectural decisions for long-term system health

Nice to Have

  • Experience working with AI or machine learning systems
  • Background in building agent-based or autonomous systems
  • Familiarity with reinforcement learning or decision-making frameworks
  • Contributions to open-source projects related to infrastructure
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines at scale
  • Knowledge of security best practices in distributed environments
  • Prior work in high-throughput, low-latency systems

Compensation

Competitive salary and equity package aligned with experience and location

Work Arrangement

Hybrid or remote options available based on team and location

Team

Work within a cross-functional team focused on advancing agent capabilities through robust engineering

About the Team

This team focuses on building the foundational systems that enable intelligent agents to operate effectively in real-world scenarios. Work emphasizes scalability, resilience, and tight integration with AI models.

Impact

Engineers directly influence the reliability and performance of agent-driven applications used by enterprise clients. Projects have direct visibility into product outcomes and user success.

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Cohere trains and deploys frontier AI models for developers and enterprises building systems for content generation, semantic search, RAG, and agents.
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Department Agentic Platform
Category other
Posted 2 months ago