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Forward Deployed Engineer, Inference

Cohere·📍 San Francisco, California, United States

Employment

FULL TIME

Work mode

On-site

Experience

8+ years

Salary

$240K – $415K/yr

Role overview

Job description

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! Why this role? Are you energized by bridging t

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About this listing

  • Source: Cohere's official careers site (via Ashby) · last confirmed on the source 30 Oct 2026
  • Posted 28 Oct 2026

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What they are looking for

Skills & requirements

Qualification

Conduct rigorous benchmarking and profiling of customer LLM workloads, root-causing performance degradation (e.g., slow generation) via metrics, dashboards, and distributed logs; Strong understanding of LLM architecture and inference dynamics, specifically how attention mechanisms, compute-bound prefill, and memory-bound decode phases dictate live performance; Hands-on experience with modern inference engines and optimization stacks (e.g., vLLM, TensorRT-LLM, lmd, or Dynamo); This helps our recruiters identify potentially qualified candidates, but it doesn't limit the applications our recruiters may review or consider

Department · Engineering & Infra

Hiring company

Cohere

Technology

Cohere builds powerful models and AI solutions enabling enterprises to automate processes, empower employees, and turn fragmented data into actionable insights.

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