Cohere · 5 days ago
Member of Technical Staff, Pretraining evaluations
New York, NY
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid LevelCohere is a company dedicated to scaling intelligence to serve humanity by training and deploying frontier models for AI systems. The Member of Technical Staff in the pretraining evals team will focus on developing better ways to measure base model progress and improve model evaluations.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Foundational AIGenerative AIMachine LearningNatural Language Processing
Responsibilities
Deeply understand each individual evaluation task in our base model evaluation suite, have a clear idea of what each task measures and know their strengths and limitations
Suggest and implement improvements to our base model evaluation suite, whether by adding new tasks to measure unmeasured model capabilities or removing redundant or low-signal tasks
Improve the statistical understanding of our evals and improve the signal-to-noise ratio of our evaluation suite
Qualification
Required
Familiarity with base model evaluations and how they differ from post-trained models
Strong statistical skills and experience evaluating scientific experiments related to data collection and model performance
Ability to convey statistical information effectively to a broad audience using visualizations and easy-to-understand numbers
Extremely strong software engineering skills
Proficiency in programming languages such as Python and ML frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX)
Excellent communication skills to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and present findings
One or more papers at top-tier venues (such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, AIStats, MLSys, JMLR, AAAI, Nature, COLING, ACL, EMNLP)
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
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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
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