Engineering Manager, GPU Infrastructure

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. The GPU Clusters team builds and operates the superclusters that train Cohere’s frontier models. We sit at the intersection of hardware, distributed systems, and AI research. As an Engineering Manager, you’ll lead a team of engineers who care deeply about GPU infrastructure.

Responsibilities

Hire, mentor, and grow a team of GPU infrastructure engineers, including performance, career development, and technical guidance on hard infrastructure problems; Own the technical roadmap for the fleet: how we deploy, operate, and scale Kubernetes clusters, including workload scheduling, hardware fault detection, and performance; Partner with researchers and ML engineers so the training and inference stack works well on new GPU architectures; Work with cross-functional stakeholders such as Capacity, Finance, Legal, Security, and other infrastructure teams on planning, cost, compliance, and shared dependencies; Drive operational excellence: observability for GPU utilization and reliability, automation of cluster provisioning, cost optimization, and vendor relationships

Requirements

Experience managing engineering or SRE teams, with a focus on technical mentorship, hiring, and growth, including in remote, distributed settings; A background running large Kubernetes compute fleets in production, including in multi-cloud environments: multi-cluster operations, scheduling, node health at scale, and familiarity with IaC and infrastructure monitoring; You've gone deep in one of the layers that make a GPU training fleet work, whether that's cluster-wide operations, GPU networking, or hardware, and you're willing to get hands-on and learn the rest; Experience with cost optimization and capacity planning for GPU infrastructure; A track record of partnering with researchers or ML engineers, and of making data-informed tradeoffs across reliability, cost, and delivery

Benefits

Weekly lunch stipend of $75/£75 or equivalent in local currency; Full health and dental benefits, including a separate budget for mental health; RRSP matching, 401K, Pension Scheme; 100% Parental Leave top-up for up to 6 months for either parent; Annual enrichment benefits including Arts & culture, fitness/wellness, quality time, and workspace improvement credit; Education & learning stipend for conferences, courses, and coaching; 6 weeks of paid vacation (30 working days); Budget for traveling to other offices if you are remote, plus an annual company offsite; Co-working benefit for those not near an office; $500 home office stipend; Daily lunch program, snacks, and regular community and social events for those in the office