Senior Manager, AI

This is a remote-first role that may require travel to Boston, MA for new hire onboarding and occasional in-person team meetings and company events.

What you’ll do:

Team Leadership: Lead, manage, and grow a distributed engineering team, fostering technical excellence, accountability, and a culture of mentorship and continuous improvement.
Platform Strategy: Own the technical strategy and roadmap for Cohere's AI platforms, applications, and agents, partnering with Enterprise Architecture to deliver scalable, reliable, and observable systems.
AI & Data Architecture: Design data, retrieval, and semantic architectures that provide AI agents with accurate, contextual information across complex healthcare data sources.
ML Platform Engineering: Drive architecture for model serving, inference optimization, and production AI systems while establishing MLOps best practices for deployment, monitoring, experimentation, and performance.
Cross-Functional Leadership: Partner with product, ML, data science, and architecture teams to translate business needs into scalable technical solutions.
Engineering Excellence: Drive agile delivery, define engineering quality and reliability metrics, and champion operational excellence, security, and HIPAA-compliant platform design.

What you’ll need:

10+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years leading and developing high-performing engineering teams.
Experience building and scaling production AI-powered applications and platforms, with expertise in machine learning infrastructure, model deployment, and operational excellence.
Strong experience designing scalable data architectures and distributed systems that support intelligent applications.
Strong software engineering fundamentals with experience building cloud-native applications using modern programming languages and infrastructure tooling.
Proven ability to define technical strategy, establish engineering best practices, and influence technical direction across multiple teams.
Excellent cross-functional leadership skills with experience partnering closely with Product, Data Science, Clinical, and Architecture teams. Healthcare experience is a plus.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Pay & Perks:

💻 Fully remote opportunity with about 5% travel

🩺 Medical, dental, vision, life, disability insurance, and Employee Assistance Program

📈 401K retirement plan with company match; flexible spending and health savings account

🏝️ Flex Time Off + company holidays

👶 Up to 14 weeks of paid parental leave

🐶 Pet insurance

The salary range for this position is $220,000 to $245,000 annually; as part of a total benefits package which includes health insurance, 401k and bonus. In accordance with state applicable laws, Cohere is required to provide a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. Individual pay decisions are ultimately based on a number of factors, including but not limited to qualifications for the role, experience level, skillset, and internal alignment.

Interview Process*:

Connect with Talent Acquisition for a Preliminary Phone Screening
Meet your Hiring Manager!
System Design Exercise
Technical Discussion
Cross Functional Interview