Member of Technical Staff, Modeling

Cohere; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Lunch stipend

Health and dental benefits

RRSP matching

Parental leave

Learning stipend

Paid vacation 6 weeks

Home office stipend

Job summary

Cohere is a leading security-first enterprise AI company with global offices and a remote-friendly policy. As a Member Of Technical Staff, you design, build, and scale AI systems, work on cutting-edge foundation models, and collaborate with top researchers.

The role blends engineering and research across our compute and data infrastructure, enabling production-grade experimentation and deployment. We embrace remote-friendly operations with offices in Toronto and other major cities, offering

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering skills.
• Proficiency in Python and ML frameworks such as TensorFlow, TF-Serving, JAX, and XLA/MLIR.
• Experience writing kernels for GPUs using CUDA.
• Experience using large-scale distributed training strategies.
• Familiarity with autoregressive sequence models, such as Transformers.
• Bonus: publications at top-tier venues.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and scale AI systems for serving our users.
• Research, implement, and experiment with ideas on our supercompute and data infrastructure.
• Learn from and work with the best researchers in the field.

Skills

Software engineering

Python ML frameworks

CUDA kernels

Distributed training

Transformers

Tools

TensorFlow

JAX

XLA/MLIR

CUDA

Job description

Who are we?

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.

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.

We’re training and deploying frontier models for enterprises who are building AI systems. We believe that our work is instrumental to the widespread adoption of AI and we are looking for folks that want to be part of that.

We obsess over what we build. Each one of us is responsible for contributing to increasing the capabilities of our models and the value they drive for our customers. Cohere is a team of researchers, engineers, designers, and more, who are all passionate about their craft.

We are a global technology company headquartered in Toronto with key offices in London, New York City, San Francisco, Montreal, Paris, Berlin and Seoul. Join us!

Why this role?

Design and implement novel research ideas, ship state of the art models to production, and maintain deep connections to academia. We have one of the highest ratio of compute to engineers in the world. We do not delineate strongly between engineering and research. Everyone will contribute to writing production code and conducting research depending on individual interest and organizational needs. We have all the compute, data, and talent available for you to do your best work.

Please Note: We have offices in Toronto, London, Paris, San Francisco and New York but also embrace being remote-friendly! There are no restrictions on where you can be located for this role.

As a Member Of Technical Staff, You Will

• Design, build and scale AI systems for serving our users.
• Research, implement, and experiment with ideas on our supercompute and data infrastructure.
• Learn from and work with the best researchers in the field.

You May Be a Good Fit If You Have

• Extremely strong software engineering skills.
• Proficiency in Python and related ML frameworks such as Tensorflow, TF-Serving, JAX, and XLA/MLIR.
• Experience writing kernels for GPUs using CUDA.
• Experience using large-scale distributed training strategies.
• Familiarity with autoregressive sequence models, such as Transformers.
• Bonus: paper at top-tier venues (such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, AIStats, MLSys, JMLR, AAAI, Nature, COLING, ACL, EMNLP).
• This is neither an exhaustive nor necessary set of attributes. Even if none of these apply to you, but you believe you will contribute to Cohere, please reach out. We have wide variety of backgrounds at Cohere.

Full-Time Employees At Cohere Enjoy These Perks

• A weekly lunch stipend of $75/£75 or equivalent in your local currency for lunch.
• 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: Arts & culture, fitness/wellness, quality time, and a 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.

How And Where We Work

• Cohere is remote-friendly, but we also have offices in Toronto, London, New York City, San Francisco, Montreal, Paris, Berlin and Seoul with more opening soon.
• For those in the office: a daily lunch program, plenty of snacks, and regular community and social events.
• For those not near an office: a co-working benefit so you can work alongside others in your city.
• Everyone receives a $500 home office stipend to set up your workspace properly.

We strive to create an inclusive work environment for all; we welcome applicants from all backgrounds and are committed to providing equal opportunities. Should you require any accommodations during the recruitment process, please submit an Accommodations Request Form, and we will work together to meet your needs.

We may use AI-enabled tools to screen and assess applicants against the criteria for this position. This helps our recruiters identify potentially qualified candidates, but it doesn't limit the applications our recruiters may review or consider.