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📍 New York, New York, United States· Full-time
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$300K – $350K/yr

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CLEAR is building THE secure identity company of the future. Our mission is to make experiences safer and easier—physically and digitally. With more than 43 million Members and a growing network of partners across the world, CLEAR's secure identity platform is transforming the way people live, work, and travel. Whether it’s at the airport, stadium, or throughout your everyday life, CLEAR unlocks the magic of frictionless experiences. We are seeking a technical, data-driven Product Management leader to own CLEAR's Marketing Technology platform. This role is responsible for the systems, data, and measurement capabilities that power member acquisition from first touch through enrollment. You will own CLEAR's MarTech ecosystem, including attribution and tracking, audience data infrastructure, CRM and lifecycle marketing platforms, and the integrations that connect marketing signals to actionable insights. Partnering closely with Marketing, Engineering, and Data teams, you'll ensure CLEAR has the tools and intelligence needed to scale growth across paid, organic, and partner channels. What You'll Do: Own the vision, roadmap, and performance of CLEAR's MarTech ecosystem, including CRM, audience activation, tracking, attribution, and marketing data infrastructure. Build best-in-class measurement capabilities across paid, organic, and partner channels, creating a trusted source of truth for acquisition performance. Partner with Marketing to improve audience targeting, lifecycle messaging, SEO/SEM performance, and channel optimization. Drive strategy for audience segmentation, activation, suppression, and first-party data utilization using platforms such as Snowflake and Hightouch. Own the digital enrollment experience, ensuring it is optimized for conversion, personalization, and growth. Define success metrics, manage vendor relationships, and prioritize investments that maximize marketing effectiveness and ROI. What We're Looking For: 8+ years of Product Management experie

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📍 New York, new york, United States· Full-time
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About Us: AI needs a new infrastructure layer. We're building it at Modal. Every era of computing brought new workloads that previous infrastructure couldn't support: mainframes, databases, and the cloud. Each time, the company that rebuilt the layer underneath defined the decade. AI is no different, except it touches everything instead of one slice, and the window to build the layer underneath it is open right now. Our customers include category-defining companies like Lovable , Ramp , Cognition, DoorDash, and Suno. They rely on Modal for instant GPU access, sub-second container starts, and native storage, so it's simple to serve low-latency inference, fine-tune models, and access production-ready sandboxes at scale. We recently raised a $355M Series C at a $4.65B valuation, led by General Catalyst and Redpoint Ventures. We've crossed $300M+ ARR and grown fivefold since September. Our team includes creators of popular open-source projects (e.g., Seaborn , Luig i ), academic researchers, international olympiad medalists, and experienced engineering and product leaders with decades of experience. The Role: We're hiring a VP of Finance to build the finance function from the ground up as our first full-time finance hire. This is a high-impact role for someone who thrives at the intersection of strategic thinking and hands-on execution. We are looking for someone who can architect the systems and processes that will scale with Modal, partner closely with the founders and executive team, and grow into the company's CFO. You'll report directly to the CEO and collaborate closely with our BizOps, GTM, and Product teams. In this role, you will: Build and maintain Modal's operating model, tying financial performance to company KPIs and resource allocation Lead all budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning processes, and develop the reporting infrastructure that gives leadership and the board clear, timely visibility into the health of the business Partner with the found

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📍 New York, New York, United States· Full-time
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At Datadog, we're on a mission to build the best platform in the world for engineers to understand and scale their systems, applications, and teams. We operate at high scale, enabling seamless collaboration and problem-solving among Dev, Ops, and Security teams globally for tens of thousands of companies. Our engineering culture values pragmatism, honesty, and simplicity to solve hard problems the right way. APM at Datadog is on its way to redefine how users interact with their telemetry. We are integrating intelligence directly into troubleshooting workflows to help engineers find root causes faster, navigate complex distributed systems seamlessly, and optimize application performance with minimal cognitive load. APM provides deep visibility from end-user interactions to backend services and we are now expanding this foundation with new AI-driven insights, guidance, and automation. As a Product Manager II for APM, you will work with world-class engineers, designers, and partner product teams to shape the future of Distributed Tracing, Performance Analysis, and Intelligent Troubleshooting. You will help build advanced capabilities that scale to thousands of customers and make sophisticated observability workflows accessible to every engineer, from experts to beginners. At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them. What you will do: Develop a deep understanding of APM customers, their performance challenges, telemetry workflows, and competitors Lead conversations with design partners and strategic customers to uncover real-world performance issues, validate product assumptions, and guide solutions from early prototypes through General Availability Define and deliver the next generation of APM features with engineering and design, especially agentic on

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📍 New York, New York, United States· Full-time· Remote
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We believe that the way people interact with their finances will drastically improve in the next few years. We’re dedicated to empowering this transformation by building the tools and experiences that thousands of developers use to create their own products. Plaid powers the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life. We work with thousands of companies like Venmo, SoFi, several of the Fortune 500, and many of the largest banks to make it easy for people to connect their financial accounts to the apps and services they want to use. Plaid’s network covers 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK and Europe. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, Seattle, Washington D.C., Raleigh, London, and Amsterdam. The Data team within Plaid’s Fraud organization builds the machine learning systems that power Plaid’s fraud detection products, leveraging Plaid’s unique network data to identify and stop fraud before it happens. The team owns the full ML lifecycle—from feature pipelines and model training to production serving and monitoring—building reliable, scalable systems that deliver high-quality fraud detection as we grow to support hundreds of customers. As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer, you will own the development of high-performance feature computation and online inference pipelines that power production machine learning systems at scale. You’ll build robust observability, monitoring, and automated debugging capabilities, while leveraging AI-assisted tools to investigate complex system behavior and maintain high reliability. You’ll partner closely with ML Infrastructure, Data Science, and Product teams to execute critical technical initiatives and deliver scalable, high-impact ML solutions. Responsibilities: Build and scale machine learning systems that power a rapidly growing fraud detection product in a fast-paced environment. Solve complex technical challenges at the intersect

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📍 New York, New York, United States· Full-time
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We believe that the way people interact with their finances will drastically improve in the next few years. We’re dedicated to empowering this transformation by building the tools and experiences that thousands of developers use to create their own products. Plaid powers the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life. We work with thousands of companies like Venmo, SoFi, several of the Fortune 500, and many of the largest banks to make it easy for people to connect their financial accounts to the apps and services they want to use. Plaid’s network covers 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK and Europe. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, Washington D.C., London and Amsterdam. Plaid’s mission is to unlock financial freedom for everyone by making money movement and access to financial data simple and secure. As a Software Engineer, you will design and build the systems that power how millions of people connect to their finances. You will work across the stack, from reliable backend services and APIs to intuitive applications that bring those systems to life. You will collaborate with engineers, product managers, and designers to ship products that make financial services more accessible and transparent. At Plaid, engineers take ownership early, grow quickly, and see their work reach millions of users. Responsibilities: Design & Development: Build and maintain backend services with a focus on performance, reliability and scalability. Collaboration: Work closely with product managers and other stakeholders to define and implement new features that meet product and customer needs. Code Quality: Write clean, maintainable and efficient code. Testing & Debugging: Develop automated tests to ensure the quality and reliability of the codebase. Troubleshoot and resolve issues. Engage in hands-on coding and architectural design, setting and maintaining high technical standard

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📍 New York, New York, United States· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -83.5%

From $204K/yr

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The opportunity Datadog’s Infrastructure products help engineers understand and operate the systems their applications depend on. Our customers work in complex environments like Kubernetes and serverless, where infrastructure changes constantly, information is dense, and decisions about reliability, performance, and cost are closely connected. We’re looking for a Staff Product Designer to join Modern Compute, with an initial focus on Containers Autoscaling. Autoscaling helps engineering teams make better decisions about how their applications and infrastructure use resources. Designing these experiences requires making deeply technical systems understandable, helping customers act with confidence, and fitting into the tools and workflows they already use. The team is rethinking how workload and cluster autoscaling come together as a more coherent product experience. This includes how customers get started, understand recommendations, evaluate value, and safely apply changes across their environments. The work also connects to other parts of Datadog, including observability, Cloud Cost Management, permissions, and AI-assisted workflows. As a Staff Product Designer, you will help define that direction and lead the work from early problem framing through shipped product. You will partner closely with product and engineering, bring a high level of interaction and visual craft to complex workflows, and help raise the quality of design across Modern Compute. At Datadog, we place value in our office culture, the relationships and collaboration it builds, and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to help our Datadogs find a work-life rhythm that works for them. What you’ll do Lead end-to-end product design for Modern Compute, initially focused on our Autoscaling product. Help define the product direction for an area that is still evolving, from early framing and exploration through detailed design and delivery. Design clear, trustwort

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📍 New York, New York, United States· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -83.5%

From $280K/yr

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Datadog is seeking a Director of Product Management to lead our AI Observability portfolio and shape how organizations build, monitor, and scale AI systems in production. This role leads LLM Observability and helps define the next wave of innovation across GPU Monitoring, Distributed AI Monitoring, and emerging research-oriented tooling such as Model Lab. You will set the vision and strategy for this rapidly growing area, expanding established products while incubating new capabilities that deliver deep visibility into AI infrastructure, model performance, and distributed AI environments. As AI becomes core to modern applications, this team plays a critical role in ensuring customers can deploy and scale AI with confidence. We’re looking for a builder-minded product leader with strong technical depth and hands-on curiosity - someone who has built or worked closely with AI-powered products and understands the realities of production AI. You will lead a team of product managers and partner closely with engineering and design to advance Datadog’s leadership in AI observability. At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them. What You’ll Do: Own the vision and strategy for AI-driven products, ensuring alignment with overall company goals and customer needs. This will include managing our embed program to enhance the capabilities of existing products as well as developing dedicated and independent AI products. Lead and mentor a team of product managers, helping them grow and advance their careers while ensuring the delivery of high-quality, AI-powered features. Collaborate with cross-functional teams including engineering, data science, marketing, and sales to deliver AI product solutions that meet customer needs and business objectives. Identify new opportunities for

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📍 New York, New York, United States· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listing

$180K – $220K/yr

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CLEAR is building THE secure identity company of the future. Our mission is to make experiences safer and easier—physically and digitally. With more than 43 million Members and a growing network of partners across the world, CLEAR's secure identity platform is transforming the way people live, work, and travel. Whether it’s at the airport, stadium, or throughout your everyday life, CLEAR unlocks the magic of frictionless experiences. We're looking for Software Engineers to help build the next generation of CLEAR's identity platform. Beyond verifying identity, we're creating a secure, networked digital identity that enables seamless experiences across travel, enterprise, healthcare, financial services, and beyond. As a Software Engineer, you'll own complex technical problems from design through deployment, partnering closely with Product, Design, Security, and Operations to deliver reliable, scalable solutions. We're looking for engineers with a strong builder mindset who thrive in ambiguity, take ownership, and enjoy turning ideas into production systems. Level and team matching (open roles across the three pillars that make up Technology at CLEAR: Core Identity, CLEAR1 , and CLEAR Travel ) will occur towards the end of our interview process. Tech stack overview: Python / Java / React / Typescript What you’ll do: Design, build, test, and deploy scalable applications that power CLEAR's identity platform. Own projects end-to-end from technical discovery and architecture through implementation, rollout, and operational support. Partner closely with Product, Design, Data, Security, and Operations to translate business problems into simple, scalable technical solutions. Drive engineering excellence by improving system reliability, performance, testing, observability, and developer experience. Contribute to architectural decisions and continuously improve the scalability, security, and maintainability of our platform. Partner with teammates through thoughtful code reviews

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📍 New York, new york, United States· Full-time
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About Us: AI needs a new infrastructure layer. We're building it at Modal. Every era of computing brought new workloads that previous infrastructure couldn't support: mainframes, databases, and the cloud. Each time, the company that rebuilt the layer underneath defined the decade. AI is no different, except it touches everything instead of one slice, and the window to build the layer underneath it is open right now. Our customers include category-defining companies like Lovable , Ramp , Cognition, DoorDash, and Suno. They rely on Modal for instant GPU access, sub-second container starts, and native storage, so it's simple to serve low-latency inference, fine-tune models, and access production-ready sandboxes at scale. We recently raised a $355M Series C at a $4.65B valuation, led by General Catalyst and Redpoint Ventures. We've crossed $300M+ ARR and grown fivefold since September. Our team includes creators of popular open-source projects (e.g., Seaborn , Luig i ), academic researchers, international olympiad medalists, and experienced engineering and product leaders with decades of experience. The Role: We are looking for strong engineers with experience and interest in designing, building, and maintaining the novel, high-performance systems that make up our serverless platform. Requirements: 5+ years of experience writing high-quality production code Experience building high-performance distributed systems at a large scale (the more battle scars, the better) Strong cloud skills Strong knowledge of low-level operating system foundations (Linux kernel, file systems, containers, etc.) Experience with performance engineering (tell us a story of when you shaved off a few milliseconds!) Ability to work in-person in our NYC or SF office. Prior experience with Rust is nice to have, but not required. Ability to participate in on-call rotation and respond to production incidents.

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📍 New York, new york, United States· Full-time
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About Us: AI needs a new infrastructure layer. We're building it at Modal. Every era of computing brought new workloads that previous infrastructure couldn't support: mainframes, databases, and the cloud. Each time, the company that rebuilt the layer underneath defined the decade. AI is no different, except it touches everything instead of one slice, and the window to build the layer underneath it is open right now. Our customers include category-defining companies like Lovable , Ramp , Cognition, DoorDash, and Suno. They rely on Modal for instant GPU access, sub-second container starts, and native storage, so it's simple to serve low-latency inference, fine-tune models, and access production-ready sandboxes at scale. We recently raised a $355M Series C at a $4.65B valuation, led by General Catalyst and Redpoint Ventures. We've crossed $300M+ ARR and grown fivefold since September. Our team includes creators of popular open-source projects (e.g., Seaborn , Luig i ), academic researchers, international olympiad medalists, and experienced engineering and product leaders with decades of experience. The Role: We are looking for strong engineers with experience in making ML systems performant at scale. If you are interested in contributing to open-source projects and Modal’s container runtime to push language and diffusion models towards higher throughput and lower latency, we’d love to hear from you! Requirements: 5+ years of experience writing high-quality, high-performance code. Experience working with torch, high-level ML frameworks, and inference engines (vLLM or TensorRT). Familiarity with Nvidia GPU architecture and CUDA. Experience with ML performance engineering (tell us a story about boosting GPU performance — debugging SM occupancy issues, rewriting an algorithm to be compute-bound, eliminating host overhead, etc). Nice-to-have: familiarity with low-level operating system foundations (Linux kernel, file systems, containers, etc).

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📍 New York, New York, United States· Full-time
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$225K – $300K/yr

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CLEAR is building THE secure identity company of the future. Our mission is to make experiences safer and easier—physically and digitally. With more than 43 million Members and a growing network of partners across the world, CLEAR's secure identity platform is transforming the way people live, work, and travel. Whether it’s at the airport, stadium, or throughout your everyday life, CLEAR unlocks the magic of frictionless experiences. We're looking for Senior Fullstack Software Engineers to help build the next generation of CLEAR's identity platform. Beyond verifying identity, we're creating a secure, networked digital identity that enables seamless experiences across travel, enterprise, healthcare, financial services, and beyond. As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll own complex technical problems from design through deployment, partnering closely with Product, Design, Security, and Operations to deliver reliable, scalable solutions. We're looking for engineers with a strong builder mindset who thrive in ambiguity, take ownership, and enjoy turning ideas into production systems. Level and team matching (open roles across the three pillars that make up Technology at CLEAR: Core Identity, CLEAR1 , and CLEAR Travel ) will occur towards the end of our interview process. Tech stack overview: Python / React / Typescript What you’ll do: Design, build, test, and deploy scalable full-stack applications that power CLEAR's identity platform. Own projects end-to-end from technical discovery and architecture through implementation, rollout, and operational support. Partner closely with Product, Design, Data, Security, and Operations to translate business problems into simple, scalable technical solutions. Drive engineering excellence by improving system reliability, performance, testing, observability, and developer experience. Contribute to architectural decisions and continuously improve the scalability, security, and maintainability of our platform. Mentor teammates through t

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📍 New York, NY, United States· Full-time
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$180K – $220K/yr

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CLEAR is building THE secure identity company of the future. Our mission is to make experiences safer and easier—physically and digitally. With more than 43 million Members and a growing network of partners across the world, CLEAR's secure identity platform is transforming the way people live, work, and travel. Whether it’s at the airport, stadium, or throughout your everyday life, CLEAR unlocks the magic of frictionless experiences. We’re looking for an experienced Machine Learning Engineer to help us build the next generation of products which will go beyond just ID and enable our members to leverage the power of a networked digital identity. As a Machine Learning Engineer at CLEAR, you will participate in the design, implementation, testing, and deployment of applications to build and enhance our platform - one that interconnects dozens of attributes and qualifications while keeping member privacy and security at the core. A brief highlight of our tech stack: Python / Postgres / Snowflake / dbt AWS SageMaker and MLflow What you'll do: Own and drive the foundational work of a ML system at CLEAR Design, build and deploy ML models for various applications, such as document and image processing, fraud detection. Develop and implement robust data pipelines at a variety of scales, including collection, pre-processing, transformation, and feature engineering Partner with product and other stakeholders to uncover requirements, to innovate, and to solve complex problems Have a strong sense of ownership, responsible for architectural decision-making and striving for continuous improvement in technology and processes at CLEAR What you're great at: 3+ years of experience building, operating and scaling ML models for consumer applications, particularly those with experience building end-to-end systems Experience designing, implementing, and scaling complex data pipelines for ML models and evaluating their performance Expertise in best practices for feature enginee

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📍 New York, New York, United States· Full-time
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$225K – $300K/yr

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CLEAR is building THE secure identity company of the future. Our mission is to make experiences safer and easier—physically and digitally. With more than 43 million Members and a growing network of partners across the world, CLEAR's secure identity platform is transforming the way people live, work, and travel. Whether it’s at the airport, stadium, or throughout your everyday life, CLEAR unlocks the magic of frictionless experiences. We're looking for Senior Fullstack Software Engineers to help build the next generation of CLEAR's identity platform. Beyond verifying identity, we're creating a secure, networked digital identity that enables seamless experiences across travel, enterprise, healthcare, financial services, and beyond. As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll own complex technical problems from design through deployment, partnering closely with Product, Design, Security, and Operations to deliver reliable, scalable solutions. We're looking for engineers with a strong builder mindset who thrive in ambiguity, take ownership, and enjoy turning ideas into production systems. Level and team matching (open roles across the three pillars that make up Technology at CLEAR: Core Identity, CLEAR1 , and CLEAR Travel ) will occur towards the end of our interview process. Tech stack overview: Java / React / Typescript What you’ll do: Design, build, test, and deploy scalable full-stack applications that power CLEAR's identity platform. Own projects end-to-end from technical discovery and architecture through implementation, rollout, and operational support. Partner closely with Product, Design, Data, Security, and Operations to translate business problems into simple, scalable technical solutions. Drive engineering excellence by improving system reliability, performance, testing, observability, and developer experience. Contribute to architectural decisions and continuously improve the scalability, security, and maintainability of our platform. Mentor teammates through tho

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📍 New York, NY, United States· Full-time
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At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive. With a billion rides per year and counting, Lyft is solving hard problems in a rapidly growing domain with a lot of data and creative solutions in Rider, Driver, Marketplace, and beyond. While traditional approaches to optimization and problem decomposition are sufficient to disrupt transportation, building a next-generation platform for low-cost, ultra-immersive transportation to improve people's lives warrants modern ML utilizing petabyte-scale data. Our highly motivated Machine Learning Engineers work on these challenging problems and define solutions to directly impact various aspects of our core business. The Fulfillment group, within the Marketplace at Lyft, is responsible for determining what inventory can be reliably offered for a given rider session and fulfilling rider requests. The group comprises several sub-teams that generate feasible offers for riders, match rider requests with drivers, and maintain a distributed state machine to track rides and drivers from request through completion. We are seeking a Machine Learning Engineer to join the Fulfillment team and lead the design, development, and deployment of state-of-the-art machine learning systems. This role requires a strategic thinker who can balance high-level system architecture with hands-on technical implementation. You will collaborate across teams to shape the future of ride-sharing by leveraging machine learning and data science. Responsibilities: Design, build, and deploy machine learning models for real-time applications, including translating state-of-the-art research into production-ready solutions Design and implement feature pipelines, model training workflows, and serving infrastructure using Lyft's ML platform Evaluate ML system performance against business KPIs, run experiments, and drive continuous model improvement

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📍 New York, New York, United States· Full-time
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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! Why this role? Large Language Models (LLMs) continue to push the boundaries of what AI systems can do — but inference is still the bottleneck. The Model Efficiency team is responsible for pushing the limits of LLM inference efficiency across our foundation models. We explore and ship breakthroughs across the model execution stack, including: model architecture and MoE routing optimization decoding and inference-time algorithm improvements software/hardware co-design for GPU acceleration performance optimization without compromising model quality Please Note: We have offices in Toronto, Montreal, San Francisco, New York, Paris, Seoul and London. We embrace a remote-friendly environment, and as part of this approach, we strategically distribute teams based on interests, expertise, and time zones to promote collaboration and flexibility. You'll find the Model Efficiency team concentrated in the EST and PST time zones, these are our preferred locations. As a Staff Research Engineer, you will develop, prototype, and deploy techniques that materially improve how fast and efficiently our models run in production. You may be a good fit

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