Cohere · 1 week ago
Member of Technical Staff, MLE
New York, NY
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid, Senior LevelCohere is on a mission to scale intelligence to serve humanity by training and deploying frontier models for AI systems. As a Member of Technical Staff in Applied ML, you will work directly with enterprise customers to design and deliver custom LLM solutions, influence the capabilities of Cohere’s foundation models, and contribute to high-value real-world applications of AI.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Foundational AIGenerative AIMachine LearningNatural Language Processing
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 and evaluation methodologies
Build custom models using Cohere’s foundation model stack, CPT recipes, post-training pipelines (including RLVR), and data assets
Develop SOTA modeling techniques that directly enhance model performance for customer use-cases
Contribute improvements back to the foundation-model stack — including new capabilities, tuning strategies, and evaluation frameworks
Work as part of Cohere’s customer facing MLE team to identify high-value opportunities where LLMs can unlock transformative impact to our enterprise customers
Qualification
Required
Strong ML fundamentals and the ability to frame complex, ambiguous problems as ML solutions
Fluency with Python and core ML/LLM frameworks
Experience working 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
A broad view of the ML research landscape and a desire to push the state of the art
Bias toward action, high ownership, and comfort with ambiguity
Humility and strong collaboration instincts
A deep conviction that AI should meaningfully empower people and organizations
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
Recent News
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2026-01-11
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