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Staff Software Engineer, Inference Infrastructure

Cohere 路 San Francisco 路 Remote 路 posted 2026-01-12

The skills this role asks for

Tick the ones you already have. 5 skills; cover 4 and you are ready to apply, and show you are learning the rest.

  1. Write, test and compare three prompts 45 minTake one real task from your work. Write three different prompts for it, run each twice, and note which is most reliable and why.Anthropic Academy, free courses
  2. Call an AI model from a script 60 minUse a provider's quickstart to send one request and print the answer. Keep the key in a secret, never in the code.
  3. Train and judge a first model 90 minFollow the course and write two sentences on how you would know if the model is wrong.Kaggle Learn, Intro to Machine Learning (free)
  4. Rewrite one page with AI, and say what you changed 45 minDraft with AI, then edit it yourself and note three changes you made and why. That note is your interview answer.
  5. Explain an AI product to a sceptic 30 minRecord a two-minute explanation of one AI product to someone who doubts it, including what it cannot do.

Tick what you have to see where you stand.

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