Cohere · 2 weeks ago
Member of Technical Staff, Agent Code
New York, NY
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior LevelCohere is a company dedicated to scaling intelligence to serve humanity through AI. They are seeking a Senior Member of Technical Staff for the Agent Code team to drive the development of cutting-edge code LLMs and agent systems, focusing on implementing novel ideas and collaborating with a talented team.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Foundational AIGenerative AIMachine LearningNatural Language Processing
Responsibilities
Stay up-to-date with the latest research in code LLMs, agents, and related fields, implementing novel ideas into our systems
Design and implement scalable strategies to train code models, and deploy agent frameworks for inference and sampling. You will be collaborating with the pretraining team, create SFT trajectories and work on existing and new RL algorithms
Hillclimb on existing benchmarks and design new ones that reflect the needs of our enterprise users
Lead experiments on our state-of-the-art compute infrastructure, pushing the boundaries of what’s possible with frontier LLMs
Qualification
Required
A PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field, with publications in top-tier venues (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, EMNLP)
Deep expertise in code LLMs and agent systems, with a strong understanding of the latest research and trends
Hands-on experience with frontier LLMs and their applications in code generation or automation
Strong software engineering skills, with proficiency in Python and PyTorch, TensorFlow, or similar frameworks
Experience with distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and scalable architectures
A proactive, self-motivated mindset, with a passion for solving ambitious, open-ended problems
Benefits
An open and inclusive culture and work environment
Work closely with a team on the cutting edge of AI research
Weekly lunch stipend, in-office lunches & snacks
Full health and dental benefits, including a separate budget to take care of your mental health
100% Parental Leave top-up for up to 6 months
Personal enrichment benefits towards arts and culture, fitness and well-being, quality time, and workspace improvement
Remote-flexible, offices in Toronto, New York, San Francisco, London and Paris, as well as a co-working stipend
6 weeks of vacation (30 working days!)
Company
Cohere
Cohere is an enterprise AI firm developing secure and private AI technology to address real-world business challenges.
Founded in 2019
201-500 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2025 (11)
2024 (14)
2023 (13)
2022 (5)
2021 (2)
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$1.71BKey Investors
Government of CanadaTiger Global ManagementIndex Ventures
2025-09-24Series D· $100M
2025-08-14Series D· $500M
2025-06-17Secondary Market
Leadership Team
Aidan Gomez
cofounder + ceo
Ivan Zhang
Co-Founder
Recent News
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2026-01-11
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