Senior Search Applications Performance Engineer
Cohere · Toronto
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 co-headquartered in Toronto and San Francisco, with key offices in London, New York City, Montreal, Seoul, Germany and Paris. Join us! WHY THIS ROLE? Join the Compass team to optimize and scale our Search Applications and infrastructure, ensuring users receive fast, reliable, and intelligent search experiences. You'll work at the intersection of search technology and performance engineering, revolutionizing how users interact with AI-powered search through continuous optimization, benchmarking, and infrastructure enhancements. Your work will directly enhance document understanding capabilities and support the development of new tool surfaces designed for agentic users. IN THIS ROLE, YOU WILL… - Implement performance monitoring and optimization strategies for Compass search services and the integration with North - Develop and maintain benchmarking frameworks to evaluate search model performance and infrastructure efficiency - Collaborate with modeling teams to optimize search models for faster response times and reduced resource consumption - Work on scaling the search services while maintaining high availability and low latency - Partner with product teams to translate performance requirements into technical implementations - Dev