Data Engineer, Data Foundations

Cohere is a company focused on scaling intelligence to serve humanity through advanced AI systems. As a Data Engineer, you will work on foundational infrastructure for AI, collaborating with top researchers and engineers to create impactful customer experiences and drive strategic recommendations across various departments.

Responsibilities:

• Work directly on new customer experiences built on one of the most advanced AI systems in the world
• Collaborate daily with researchers and engineers who are some of the best in the world at what they do
• Run implementations end-to-end and see initiatives through to real outcomes
• Partner across research, marketing, sales, and finance to help define how Cohere grows, with your recommendations feeding directly into products and strategy

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience working on production-grade data processing systems
• Strong command of Python and SQL
• Experience with distributed data processing frameworks such as Apache Beam, Spark, or Flink, alongside large-scale data system design
• The ability to transform unstructured data into performant datasets in relational databases and blob storage
• Familiarity with modern analytics stack tooling such as BigQuery, Airflow, or dbt
• Genuine excitement about AI - you follow the research, have opinions, and enjoy being in the weeds
• Comfort operating at the edge of what's known, with a desire to build something genuinely new rather than optimise what already exists
• Knowledge of Java or Golang (nice to have)
• Experience with Kubernetes (nice to have)