Machine Learning Intern/Co-op (Fall, 2026)

Cohere; United States; Remote; USD 28,000 - 39,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Lunch stipend

Health benefits

RRSP/401K

Parental leave

Paid vacation

Travel budget

Home office stipend

Job summary

Cohere is an AI company focused on security-first enterprise models and end-to-end products. This internship offers a chance to work on state-of-the-art ML models and training pipelines, contributing to production-ready systems.

You will design, train, and refine models, explore safety and efficiency techniques, and collaborate with product teams to deploy impactful NLP solutions. This internship requires being enrolled in a post-secondary program and committing 3–6 months full-time.

Qualifications

• Proficiency in Python and ML frameworks like TensorFlow, TF-Serving, JAX, and XLA/MLIR.
• Experience with large-scale distributed training strategies.
• Familiarity with autoregressive sequence models such as Transformers.
• Strong communication and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, train and improve upon cutting-edge models.
• Develop new techniques to train and serve models safely, better, and faster.
• Train very large-scale models on massive datasets.
• Explore continual and active learning strategies for streaming data.
• Learn from senior ML staff.
• Collaborate with product teams to develop solutions.

Skills

Python

TensorFlow

JAX

XLA/MLIR

Transformers

Distributed training

NLP

Strong communication

Education

Current student in post-secondary program

Tools

TensorFlow Serving

CUDA

TPUs

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.

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 co-headquartered in Toronto and San Francisco, with key offices in London, New York City, Montreal, Seoul, Germany and Paris. Join us!

Why this role?

Ship state of the art models to production.

Design and implement novel research ideas.

Build elegant training/deployment pipelines.

Join us at a pivotal moment, shape what we build and wear multiple hats as an intern!

Please Note: To be eligible for this position you should be a student currently enrolled in a post-secondary program, available for a full-time 3-6 month internship, co-op, or research work term.

As a Machine Learning Intern, you will:

• Design, train and improve upon cutting-edge models.
• Help us develop new techniques to train and serve models safer, better, and faster.
• Train extremely large-scale models on massive datasets.
• Explore continual and active learning strategies for streaming data.
• Learn from experienced senior machine learning technical staff.
• Work closely with product teams to develop solutions.

You may be a good fit if you have:

• Proficiency in Python and related ML frameworks such as Tensorflow, TF-Serving, JAX, and XLA/MLIR.
• Experience using large-scale distributed training strategies.
• Familiarity with autoregressive sequence models, such as Transformers.
• Strong communication and problem-solving skills.
• A demonstrated passion for applied NLP models and products.
• Bonus: experience writing kernels for GPUs using CUDA.
• Bonus: experience training on TPUs.
• Bonus: papers at top-tier venues (such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, AIStats, MLSys, JMLR, AAAI, Nature, COLING, ACL, EMNLP).

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:
• 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. We have offices in Toronto, San Francisco, New York City, London, Paris, Montreal, and more coming 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 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.