Staff/Senior Staff Software Engineer, Agent Infrastructure

📋 Job Overview

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.

🏢 About Cohere

We’re building the next generation of agentic AI infrastructure at Cohere. This team sits at the intersection of ML systems, distributed infrastructure, and developer experience, creating the platform that powers autonomous AI agents at scale.

🎯 The Role

You’ll work on hard, forward-looking problems with few established patterns, including secure code execution, agent state management, model routing, identity and authentication, and resource management for long-running agent workflows. This role is a strong fit for someone who combines systems depth with ML intuition. You should be comfortable building reliable infrastructure, thinking through distributed systems tradeoffs, and understanding how emerging agentic capabilities shape platform design.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Turn emerging ML research ideas into production-ready infrastructure
• Build core platform capabilities for execution, storage, and state management
• Prototype and evaluate new technologies, then help decide what should move into production
• Partner with research teams to shape infrastructure based on what future agent systems will need

📌 Required Qualifications

• Experience building production ML infrastructure with strong systems fundamentals
• Hands-on work with agentic systems, multi-agent workflows, or agent development frameworks
• Familiarity with model routing and LLM provider frameworks across different model types and environments
• Experience with scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems and Kubernetes
• A track record of moving quickly on prototypes and making good decisions about productionization.

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Experience across on-prem, private cloud, and public cloud environments
• Familiarity with storage systems, embedded databases, or filesystem abstractions
• Experience with code execution sandboxes such as gVisor, Firecracker, Kata, or WASM runtimes
• Interest in emerging ML infrastructure, edge inference, or browser-native models
• Open-source contributions to LLM or agent infrastructure projects
• Experience with identity, workload auth, or capability-based security systems.

🎁 Benefits

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.

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

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. 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, and we will work together to meet your needs.