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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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