Member of Technical Staff, Pre-Training Data

Cohere; City Of London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Open and inclusive culture

Weekly lunch stipend

Full health and dental benefits

6 weeks of vacation

Job summary

A leading AI technology company in London seeks a Machine Learning Engineer (Pre-Training Data) to design and implement data pipelines for advanced language models. The role requires strong software engineering expertise in Python and familiarity with data processing frameworks. Join a diverse team to transform data into critical components of innovative AI systems. Employees benefit from a remote-friendly environment and generous perks.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering skills, proficient in Python.
• Familiarity with data processing frameworks like Apache Spark.
• Experience working with large-scale datasets across multiple domains.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable data pipelines for diverse datasets.
• Conduct data ablations to assess and improve data quality.
• Collaborate with teams to ensure data meets model demands.

Skills

Software engineering skills

Proficiency in Python

Data processing frameworks (Apache Spark, Pandas)

Experience with large-scale datasets

Knowledge of data quality assessment techniques

Job description

Member of Technical Staff, Pre-Training Data

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.

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.

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?
As a Machine Learning Engineer specializing in pretraining data, you will play a pivotal role in developing the data pipeline that underpins Cohere’s advanced language models. Your responsibilities will encompass the end-to-end management of training data, including ingestion, cleaning, filtering, and optimization, as well as data modeling to ensure datasets are structured and formatted for optimal model performance. You will work with diverse data sources—such as web data, code data, multilingual corpora, and synthetic data—to ensure their quality, diversity, and reliability.

In this role, you will design and implement scalable, robust pipelines for data processing, conduct data ablations to evaluate quality, and experiment with data mixtures to enhance model performance. By combining research and engineering, you will bridge the gap between raw data and cutting-edge AI models, directly contributing to improvements in critical training metrics like throughput and accelerator utilization.

Your work will be essential to Cohere’s mission of delivering efficient and reliable language understanding and generation capabilities, driving innovation in natural language processing. If you are passionate about transforming data into the foundation of AI systems, this role offers a unique opportunity to make a meaningful impact.

As a Machine Learning Engineer (Pre-Training Data), You Will

• Design and build scalable data pipelines to ingest, clean, filter, and optimize diverse datasets, including web data, code data, multilingual corpora, and synthetic data.
• Conduct data ablations to assess data quality and experiment with data mixtures to enhance model performance.
• Develop robust data modeling techniques to ensure datasets are structured and formatted for optimal training efficiency.
• Research and implement innovative data curation methods, leveraging Cohere’s infrastructure to drive advancements in natural language processing.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including researchers and engineers, to ensure data pipelines meet the demands of cutting-edge language models.

You May Be a Good Fit If You Have

• Strong software engineering skills, with proficiency in Python and experience building data pipelines.
• Familiarity with data processing frameworks such as Apache Spark, Apache Beam, Pandas, or similar tools.
• Experience working with large-scale datasets, including web data, code data, and multilingual corpora.
• Knowledge of data quality assessment techniques and experimentation with data mixtures.
• A passion for bridging research and engineering to solve complex data-related challenges in AI model training.

Bonus: 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! If you want to work really hard on a glorious mission with teammates that want the same thing, Cohere is the place for you.

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 6 months for employees based in Canada, the US, and the UK
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