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Member of Technical Staff - Sovereign AI
AI / ML Engineer
• Remote
• Full-time
• 📍 Canada
As a Member of Technical Staff on the Sovereign AI team, you'll design, build, and scale agentic AI systems for mission-critical use cases, working closely with academia and government — Canadian citizenship and security clearance eligibility required.
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Responsibilities
- ▹Design, build, and scale agentic AI systems for mission-critical use cases
- ▹Research, implement, and experiment with ideas on supercompute and data infrastructure
- ▹Learn from and work with leading researchers in the field
- ▹Execute across the full AI stack and ship products serving the public interest
Requirements
- ▹Canadian citizenship and eligibility for security clearance (required)
- ▹Extremely strong software engineering skills
- ▹Proficiency in Python and related ML frameworks
- ▹Experience training, evaluating, and using LLMs as an end-user
- ▹Experience with large-scale distributed (GPU) LLM training strategies
Nice to have
- ▹A paper at top-tier venues (e.g. NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, AIStats, MLSys, JMLR, AAAI, Nature, COLING, ACL, EMNLP)
What we offer
- ▹Weekly lunch stipend of about $75/£75 (or local equivalent)
- ▹Full health and dental benefits, with a separate mental health budget
- ▹RRSP matching, 401K, or pension scheme
- ▹100% parental leave top-up for up to 6 months, for either parent
- ▹Annual enrichment benefits: arts & culture, fitness/wellness, quality time, workspace improvement
- ▹Education & learning stipend for conferences, courses, and coaching
- ▹6 weeks (30 working days) of paid vacation
- ▹Budget for traveling to other offices, plus an annual company offsite
- ▹$500 home office stipend; co-working benefit for remote employees
About the company
Cohere is the leading security-first enterprise AI company, building cutting-edge foundation models and end-to-end products that solve real business problems. Co-headquartered in Toronto and San Francisco, with key offices in London, New York City, Montreal, Seoul, Germany and Paris.
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