staff software engineering Staff Engineer tech_leadership · Posted Aug 19, 2025

About this role

Cohere is hiring a staff-level Staff Engineer in the software engineering function based in Paris, France. The posting calls out experience with Python, Kubernetes, PyTorch, Ray.

Role
Staff Engineer
Function
software engineering
Level
staff
Track
Tech leadership
Employment
Full-time
Location
Paris, France
Department
Modeling
Posted
Aug 19, 2025
AI Summary
Design and implement scalable software for LLM post-training, focusing on distributed RL algorithms and infrastructure. Develop tools to support research, optimize training performance, and collaborate across engineering and scientific teams. Requires strong Python/ML framework expertise and experience with large-scale distributed training.

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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!

The integration team is responsible for developing and scaling machine learning algorithms and infrastructure for LLM post-training, with a focus on large-scale, distributed RL methods. We strive for excellence in both engineering and science by meticulously designing experiments and design docs. While tasks are assigned according to everyone’s expertise, there is a global team effort to write production code and support the team research efforts, depending on individual interests and organizational needs.

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