技术成员，培训性能工程师
Member of Technical Staff, Training Performance Engineer
我们是谁？
Cohere 是一家以安全为首要任务的企业人工智能公司。我们构建前沿的基础 AI 模型和端到端产品，旨在解决现实世界中的业务问题。
我们正在为正在构建 AI 系统的企业训练和部署前沿模型。我们认为我们的工作对 AI 的广泛应用至关重要，我们正在寻找希望成为其中一员的人才。
我们对所构建的东西精益求精。我们每个人都负责提升模型的能力以及为客户带来的价值。Cohere 是由研究人员、工程师、设计师等组成的团队，他们对各自的专业充满热情。
我们是一家总部位于多伦多的全球科技公司，在伦敦、纽约市、旧金山、蒙特利尔、巴黎、柏林和首尔设有主要办事处。加入我们！
职位概览：
作为预训练团队的性能工程师，您将负责优化我们先进的语言模型和系统的性能。主要重点是提高关键模型训练指标，如训练吞吐量，确保高加速器利用率。
该团队结合软件工程、机器学习和底层内核设计与开发的专业知识，设计稳健的系统并提升模型性能。您将致力于识别和消除性能瓶颈，开发前沿的训练和分析工具，以帮助 Cohere 实现提供高效可靠的语言理解和生成能力的使命，并推动自然语言处理领域的创新。
注意：我们在伦敦、多伦多、纽约和旧金山设有办公室，但我们也支持远程办公！该团队主要在 ET 到 CET 时区运作，因此我们正在寻找与这些时间一致的候选人，以便有效协作。
主要职责：
- 设计和编写高性能且可扩展的训练软件。
- 理解架构修改和设计选择对训练吞吐量和质量的影响。
- 编写低级 CUDA、Triton 内核，从我们的加速器中榨取每一分性能。
- 在我们的超算和数据基础设施上进行研究、实现和实验。
- 向该领域最优秀的研究人员学习并与其合作。
任职要求：
- 极强的软件工程技能。
- 精通 Python 和相关 ML 框架，如 JAX
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Who are we?
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.
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. Cohere is a team of researchers, engineers, designers, and more, who are all passionate about their craft.
We are a global technology company headquartered in Toronto with key offices in London, New York City, San Francisco, Montreal, Paris, Berlin and Seoul. Join us!
Role Overview:
As a Performance Engineer in the Pre-Training team you will be responsible for optimizing the performance of our advanced language models and systems. Their primary focus is on improving key model training metrics, such as training throughput, ensuring high accelerator utilization.
The team combines expertise in software engineering, machine learning, and low-level kernel design and development to design robust systems and enhance model performance. You will work on identifying and removing performance bottlenecks, develop cutting-edge training and profiling tools to help Cohere's mission of providing efficient and reliable language understanding and generation capabilities and drive innovation in the field of natural language processing.
Note: We have offices in London, Toronto, New York and San Francisco, but we’re also remote-friendly! This team operates primarily between ET to CET time zones, so we’re seeking candidates in locations that align with these hours for effective collaboration.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design and write high-performant and scalable software for training.
- Understand architectural modifications and design choices and their effects on training throughput and quality.
- Write low-level CUDA, triton kernels to squeeze every last bit of performance from our accelerators.
- Research, implement, and experiment with ideas on our supercompute and data infrastructure.
- Learn from and work with the best researchers in the field.
Qualifications:
- Extremely strong software engineering skills.
- Proficiency in Python and related ML frameworks such as JAX, Pytorch and XLA/MLIR.
- Experience writing kernels for GPUs using CUDA, triton, etc
- Experience using large-scale distributed training strategies.
- Familiarity with autoregressive sequence models, such as Transformers.
Bonus: paper at top-tier venues (such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, AIStats, MLSys, JMLR, AAAI, Nature, COLING, ACL, EMNLP).
Working location:
This role can be based remotely or from one of our office locations listed on the job description - there is no minimum in-office qualification requirement. We care most about hiring exceptional people regardless of locations, though please check the location listed on the posting for guidance around the core time zone or working hours alignment expected for the role.
FULL-TIME EMPLOYEES AT COHERE ENJOY THESE PERKS:
- 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.
HOW AND WHERE WE WORK:
- 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.
- For those in the office: a daily lunch program, plenty of snacks, and regular community and social events.
- For those not near an office: a co-working benefit so you can work alongside others in your city.
- Everyone receives a $500 home office stipend to set up your workspace properly.
If any of the above doesn’t line up exactly with your experience, we still encourage you to apply.
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 https://docs.google.com/forms/d/12a6IrLdF3kI2nonKSr4tiFuz18rLQbaeYV-JM9L4o9Q/edit, and we will work together to meet your needs.
We may use AI-enabled tools to screen and assess applicants against the criteria for this position. This helps our recruiters identify potentially qualified candidates, but it doesn't limit the applications our recruiters may review or consider.
Beware of Scams: Cohere will never ask for payment or third-party services (e.g., CV writing) as part of our hiring process. All legitimate roles are listed on the Cohere careers page and LinkedIn only, with all communications from Cohere employees coming from an @cohere.com or @cw.cohere email alias. If jobs are viewed on other sites then please verify these through our official careers https://cohere.com/careers page.