Member of Technical Staff, MLE (North)

Cohere; City Of London; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An AI technology company in the UK is looking for a Member of Technical Staff to design and scale innovative AI systems. The role involves collaborating with engineers to enhance AI products and working directly with cutting-edge technology in a fast-paced environment. Candidates should have strong software engineering skills and experience with AI frameworks. This position offers a remote-friendly work environment and excellent benefits including a six-week vacation.

Benefits

Open and inclusive culture

Weekly lunch stipend

Full health and dental benefits

100% Parental Leave top-up

Personal enrichment benefits

Remote-flexible opportunities

6 weeks of vacation

Qualifications

• Extremely strong software engineering skills.
• Proficiency in Python and related ML frameworks.
• Direct experience working on Large Language Models.
• Released multiple features with several iterations.
• Strong track record of creating large-scale datasets.

Responsibilities

• Join a diverse team of engineers to design and build AI systems.
• Drive agent development in Cohere’s AI workspace platform.
• Collaborate with researchers and engineers on LLM evaluation.
• Engage with leading AI and deep learning research.

Skills

Strong software engineering skills

Proficiency in Python

Experience with Tensorflow

Experience with JAX

Direct experience with Large Language Models

Building large-scale datasets

Familiarity with Transformers

Job description

Who are we?

Our mission is to scale intelligence to serve humanity. We’re training and deploying frontier models for developers and enterprises who are building AI systems to power magical experiences like content generation, semantic search, RAG, and agents. We believe that our work is instrumental to the widespread adoption of AI.

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. We like to work hard and move fast to do what’s best for our customers.

Cohere is a team of researchers, engineers, designers, and more, who are passionate about their craft. Each person is one of the best in the world at what they do. We believe that a diverse range of perspectives is a requirement for building great products.

Join us on our mission and shape the future!

Why this role?

At Cohere, our Members of Technical Staff are at the forefront of defining and shaping the future of AI-powered products. In this role, you will have the opportunity to translate cutting edge research into tangible, high-performance products that drive our enterprise forward. You will be working directly on North, Cohere’s all-in-one secure AI workspace platform, driving agent development in RAG, tool use, and language agents.

With one of the highest compute-to-engineer ratios in the world, we provide an environment where your ideas can flourish and be rapidly brought to market.
Please Note: We have offices in London, Paris, Toronto, San Francisco and New York but also embrace being remote-friendly in EMEA friendly timezones. This team operates primarily between ET to CET time zones, so we’re seeking candidates in locations that align with these hours for effective collaboration.

As a Member of Technical Staff, you will:

• Join a small, diverse team of engineers in designing, building, and scaling AI systems that underpin our suite of dev-centric enterprise products.
• Work directly on North, Cohere’s all-in-one secure AI workspace platform. Here you will drive agent development in RAG, tool use, and language agents embedded in North.
• Quickly research and experiment with novel ideas on our supercomputer and data infrastructure, ensuring our products remain at the forefront of the industry.
• Collaborate with top researchers, engineers, and annotators to create and evaluate data for post-training LLMs, ensuring our products are of the highest quality and performance.
• Engage with the latest AI and deep learning research, staying up to date with leading conferences such as NeurIPS, ICLR, and AAAI.
• Leverage product data to understand usage patterns and identify areas for improvement, ensuring our products remain relevant and competitive.
• Work closely with leadership to shape company strategy and goals, ensuring our product vision is aligned with our overall business objectives.

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.
• Deep experience in building and leading a product-centric organisation.
• Direct experience working as part of a team building Large Language Models.
• Released multiple features with several iterations.
• Strong track record of creating and curating large-scale datasets.
• Experience using large-scale distributed training strategies.
• Familiarity with autoregressive sequence models, such as Transformers.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with human annotators and cross-functional teams.
• Paper at top-tier venues (such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, AIStats, MLSys, JMLR, AAAI, Nature, COLING, ACL, EMNLP).

If some of the above doesn’t line up perfectly with your experience, we still encourage you to apply!

We value and celebrate diversity and 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.

Full-Time Employees at Cohere enjoy these Perks:

🤝 An open and inclusive culture and work environment

🧑💻 Work closely with a team on the cutting edge of AI research

🍽 Weekly lunch stipend, in-office lunches & snacks

🦷 Full health and dental benefits, including a separate budget to take care of your mental health

🐣 100% Parental Leave top-up for up to 6 months

🎨 Personal enrichment benefits towards arts and culture, fitness and well-being, quality time, and workspace improvement

🏙 Remote-flexible, offices in Toronto, New York, San Francisco, London and Paris, as well as a co-working stipend

✈️ 6 weeks of vacation (30 working days!)