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Audio Engineer, Model Efficiency – Cohere

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Our mission is to scale intelligence to serve humanity. We're training and deploying frontier models for developers and enterprises who are building AI systems to power magical experiences like content generation, semantic search, RAG, and agents. We believe that our work is instrumental to the widespread adoption of AI.

Why this role?

Our team is a fast‑growing group of committed researchers and engineers. The mission of the team is to build reliable machine learning systems and optimize audio inference serving efficiency using innovative techniques. As an engineer on this team, you will work on advancing core audio model serving metrics, including latency, throughput, and quality by diving deep into our systems, identifying bottlenecks, and delivering creative solutions for audio processing and streaming workloads.

You'll collaborate closely with both the training and serving infrastructure teams to ensure seamless integration between model development and deployment, with a special focus on real‑time and streaming audio inference.

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.

Skills & Experience

• Significant experience developing high-performance audio or machine‑learning inference systems.
• Proficiency with programming languages such as C++ and Python.
• Hands‑on experience with deep learning models for audio, speech, or language applications.
• A bias for action and a strong results‑oriented mindset.

Bonus Skills

• GPU programming, low‑level system optimization, model parallelization techniques over multiple GPUs.
• Experience with duplex real‑time streaming architectures.
• Internals of machine learning frameworks for audio (such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, or specialized audio libraries).
• Experience with inference frameworks like vLLM, SGLang, Tensort‑LLM, or custom distributed inference systems.
• Sequence modeling (e.g., transformers for audio/speech) and end‑to‑end audio pipeline optimization.

If some of the above doesn't line up perfectly with your experience, we still encourage you to apply!

We value and celebrate diversity and 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.

Perks

• ???? An open and inclusive culture and work environment
• ???????? Work closely with a team on the cutting edge of AI research
• ???? Weekly lunch stipend, in‑office lunches & snacks
• ???? Full health and dental benefits, including a separate budget to take care of your mental health
• ???? 100% Parental Leave top‑up for up to 6 months
• ???? Personal enrichment benefits towards arts and culture, fitness and well‑being, quality time, and workspace improvement
• ???? Remote‑flexible, offices in Toronto, New York, San Francisco, London and Paris, as well as a co‑working stipend
• ✈️ 6 weeks of vacation (30 working days!)

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