staff software engineering Staff Engineer tech_leadership 5+ yrs · Posted Nov 7, 2025

About this role

Cohere is hiring a staff-level Staff Engineer in the software engineering function based in New York City, NY. The posting calls out experience with Python, Rust, CUDA, LLMs and roughly 5+ years of relevant work.

Role
Staff Engineer
Function
software engineering
Level
staff
Track
Tech leadership
Employment
Full-time
Location
New York City, NY
Experience
5+ years
Department
Modeling
Posted
Nov 7, 2025
AI Summary
Staff Engineer optimizing LLM inference performance across the model execution stack. Diagnose bottlenecks, develop GPU/CUDA optimizations, and ship performance improvements. Requires 5+ years high-performance production code experience, strong C++/Python skills, and LLM inference ecosystem familiarity.

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Job description

from Cohere careers

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 role?

Our team is a fast-growing group of researchers and engineers focused on building reliable ML systems and pushing the boundaries of LLM inference efficiency. We develop techniques that improve how models execute in production, driving lower latency, higher throughput, and consistent quality across diverse workloads.

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