Applied ML MTS - Enterprise LLM Solutions Lead

Visa Hunt; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Lunch stipend

Health and dental benefits

RRSP matching/401K

Parental Leave top-up

Enrichment benefits

Vacation 6 weeks

Home-office stipend

Job summary

Cohere is a leading security-first enterprise AI company building foundation models and end-to-end products for real-world business problems. As an MTS in Applied ML, you will work directly with enterprise customers to push LLMs to their limits, train and customize frontier models, and influence the capabilities of Cohere’s foundation models.

This role blends technical leadership with customer-facing engineering, research, and model development, all within a remote-friendly environment with

Qualifications

• Strong ML fundamentals and the ability to frame complex, ambiguous problems as ML solutions.
• Fluency with Python and core ML/LLM frameworks.
• Experience working with large-scale datasets and distributed training or inference pipelines.
• Understanding of LLM architectures, tuning techniques (CPT, post-training), and evaluation methodologies.
• Demonstrated ability to meaningfully shape LLM performance.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the design and delivery of custom LLM solutions for enterprise customers.
• Translate ambiguous business problems into well-framed ML problems with clear success criteria and evaluation methodologies.
• Build custom models using Cohere’s foundation model stack, CPT recipes, post-training pipelines (including RLVR), and data assets.
• Develop SOTA modeling techniques that directly enhance model performance for customer use-cases.
• Contribute improvements back to the foundation-model stack — including new capabilities, tuning strategies, and evaluation frameworks.
• Work as part of Cohere’s customer facing MLE team to identify high-value opportunities where LLMs can unlock transformative impact to our enterprise customers.

Skills

Strong ML fundamentals

Python fluency

Distributed training

LLM architectures

Shape LLM performance

ML research overview

Action-oriented mindset

Collaboration

Ethical AI mindset

Tools

Python

Job description

Cohere is a leading security-first enterprise AI company building foundation models and end-to-end products for real-world business problems. As an MTS in Applied ML, you will work directly with enterprise customers to push LLMs to their limits, train and customize frontier models, and influence the capabilities of Cohere’s foundation models.

This role blends technical leadership with customer-facing engineering, research, and model development, all within a remote-friendly environment with