Member of Technical Staff, Training Infra Engineer

The role

This person will design and write high-performant software for training and improve training setup from an infrastructure and codebase performance standpoint. They will bridge the gap between research and production by contributing to production code and supporting research efforts.

What you will do

• Design and write high-performant and scalable software for training.
• Improve training setup from an infrastructure and codebase performance standpoint.
• Craft and implement tools to speed up training cycles and improve training infrastructure efficacy.
• Research, implement, and experiment with ideas on supercompute and data infrastructure.
• Learn from and work with researchers in the field.
• Write production code and support research efforts.

Required qualifications

• Extremely strong software engineering skills.
• Proficiency in Python and related ML frameworks such as JAX, Pytorch and XLA/MLIR.
• Experience with distributed training infrastructures (Kubernetes, Slurm) and associated frameworks (Ray).
• Experience using large-scale distributed training strategies.
• Hands on experience on training large model at scale and having contributed to the tooling and/or setup of the training infrastructure.

Nice to have

• paper at top-tier venues (such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, AIStats, MLSys, JMLR, AAAI, Nature, COLING, ACL, EMNLP).

Benefits

• Weekly lunch stipend of $75/£75 or equivalent in local currency.
• 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.
• Daily lunch program, snacks, and regular community and social events for those in the office.
• Co-working benefit for those not near an office.
• $500 home office stipend.

About the company

Cohere is a security-first enterprise AI company that builds foundation AI models and end-to-end products. It is a global technology company headquartered in Toronto.