Staff Research Engineer, Model Efficiency

Cohere
Toronto, Montreal, San Francisco, New York, Paris, Seoul, London / remote-friendly2025-11-07Remote

About the job

As a Staff Research Engineer, you will develop, prototype, and deploy techniques that materially improve how fast and efficiently our models run in production.

Responsibilities

- Develop, prototype, and deploy techniques to improve model efficiency

- 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, and performance optimization without compromising model quality

- Mentor others

Qualifications

Minimum

- PhD in Machine Learning or a related field

- Understand LLM architecture and how to optimize LLM inference given resource constraints

- Significant experience with one or more techniques that enhance model efficiency

- Strong software engineering skills

- Publications at top-tier conferences and venues (ICLR, ACL, NeurIPS)

Preferred

No preferred qualifications listed.