Cohere

Member of Technical Staff, Training Performance Engineer

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over 1 year ago
Toronto, Canada +4 moreSenior
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Responsibilities

  • Design and write high-performance, scalable software for model training
  • Analyze how architectural modifications and design choices affect training throughput and quality
  • Write low-level CUDA and Triton kernels to optimize accelerator performance
  • Research, implement, and experiment with ideas across supercompute and data infrastructure
  • Develop performance and profiling tools to identify and remove bottlenecks
  • Collaborate with researchers on efficient and reliable language understanding and generation systems

Requirements

  • Extremely strong software engineering skills
  • Proficiency in Python and related machine-learning frameworks including JAX, PyTorch, and XLA/MLIR
  • Experience writing GPU kernels using CUDA, Triton, or similar technologies
  • Experience with large-scale distributed training strategies
  • Familiarity with autoregressive sequence models such as Transformers
  • A paper at a top-tier venue such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, AIStats, MLSys, JMLR, AAAI, Nature, COLING, ACL, or EMNLP is a bonus

Benefits

  • Remote-flexible work with offices in Toronto, New York, San Francisco, London, and Paris, plus a co-working stipend
  • Weekly lunch stipend, in-office lunches, and snacks
  • Full health and dental benefits, including a separate mental health budget
  • 100% parental leave top-up for up to 6 months
  • Personal enrichment benefits for arts and culture, fitness and well-being, quality time, and workspace improvement
  • Six weeks of vacation, or 30 working days
  • Inclusive work environment and reasonable accommodations during recruitment

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About Cohere

201-500 employees

Cohere is the leading security-first enterprise AI company. We build cutting-edge foundation models and end-to-end AI products designed to solve real-world business problems. We partner closely with companies to deliver seamless integration, full customization, and easy-to-use solutions for their workforce and customers. Our all-in-one platform offers enterprises the highest levels of data security, privacy and optionality to deploy across all major cloud providers, private cloud environments, or on-premises. HQ: 171 John Street, 2nd Floor, Toronto, ON M5T 1X3