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Member of Technical Staff, Search

Backend Developer • Remote • Full-time • 📍 United States

Cohere's Search team is looking for a Member of Technical Staff to develop state-of-the-art information retrieval models, including embedding and reranker models, and to advance semantic search accuracy and efficiency.

Responsibilities

  • Design, train and improve cutting-edge search models
  • Gather high-quality retrieval datasets and optimize data pipelines for model training and evaluation
  • Work closely with the model serving team to ensure fast and stable inference
  • Collaborate with product teams to develop solutions
  • Engage in research collaborations with partner organizations and academic affiliations, publishing in top-tier venues

Requirements

  • Proficiency in Python and ML frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, TF-Serving, JAX and XLA/MLIR
  • Familiarity with training and using various information retrieval models
  • Experience leveraging LLMs as part of training data or evaluation pipelines
  • Strong communication and problem-solving skills

Nice to have

  • Experience building training and/or evaluation datasets for practical use cases
  • Proficiency in other programming languages such as C++ or Go
  • Experience using large-scale distributed training strategies with GPUs

Soft skills

Ownership mindset, willing to wear multiple hatsStrong problem-solving skillsCollaborative across product and research teams

What we offer

  • Weekly lunch stipend ($75/£75 or local equivalent)
  • Full health and dental benefits, including a mental health budget
  • RRSP matching, 401(k) or pension scheme
  • 100% parental leave top-up for up to 6 months, for either parent
  • Annual enrichment benefits (arts & culture, fitness/wellness, workspace improvement credit)
  • Education & learning stipend for conferences, courses and coaching
  • 6 weeks of paid vacation (30 working days)
  • Travel budget to other offices plus an annual company offsite
  • $500 home office stipend and co-working benefit for remote employees

About the company

Cohere is a leading security-first enterprise AI company, building frontier foundation models and end-to-end AI products for real-world business problems. It is a global team co-headquartered in Toronto and San Francisco, with offices in London, New York City, Montreal, Seoul, Germany and Paris.

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