This is not a typical Applied Scientist or ML Engineer role at Cohere: you'll work directly with enterprise customers, design custom LLM solutions, and directly shape Cohere's foundation models.
Stack
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
- ▹Build custom models using Cohere's foundation model stack, CPT recipes and post-training pipelines (including RLVR)
- ▹Develop state-of-the-art modeling techniques that improve model performance for customer use cases
- ▹Contribute improvements back to the foundation model stack, including new capabilities, tuning strategies and evaluation frameworks
- ▹Work with Cohere's customer-facing MLE team to identify high-value LLM opportunities
Requirements
- ▹Strong ML fundamentals and the ability to frame ambiguous problems as ML solutions
- ▹Fluency with Python and core ML/LLM frameworks
- ▹Experience with (or the ability to learn) 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
Soft skills
Bias toward action and high ownershipComfort with ambiguityHumility and strong collaboration instinctsDeep conviction that AI should meaningfully empower people and organizations
What we offer
- ▹Weekly lunch stipend ($75/£75 or equivalent in local currency)
- ▹Full health and dental benefits, including a separate mental health budget
- ▹RRSP matching, 401K, pension scheme
- ▹100% parental leave top-up for up to 6 months, for either parent
- ▹Annual enrichment benefits (arts & culture, fitness/wellness, workspace improvement)
- ▹Education and learning stipend for conferences and courses
- ▹6 weeks of paid vacation (30 working days)
- ▹Travel budget to other offices for remote employees, plus an annual company offsite
- ▹$500 home office stipend
About the company
Cohere is a leading security-first enterprise AI company building cutting-edge foundation AI models and end-to-end products that solve real-world business problems for enterprises building AI systems. The team spans researchers, engineers and designers, co-headquartered in Toronto and San Francisco, with offices in London, New York City, Montreal, Seoul, Germany and Paris.
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