Applied Machine Learning Engineer

📋 Job Overview

Cohere is the leading security-first enterprise AI company. We build cutting-edge foundation AI models and end-to-end products that are designed to solve real-world business problems. We’re training and deploying frontier models for enterprises who are building AI systems. We believe that our work is instrumental to the widespread adoption of AI and we are looking for folks that want to be part of that.

🏢 About Cohere

Cohere is a global technology company headquartered in Toronto with key offices in London, New York City, San Francisco, Montreal, Paris, Berlin and Seoul. Join us!

🎯 The Role

As a Machine Learning Engineer on our Applied ML team, you will work directly with customers to quickly understand their greatest problems and design and implement solutions using Large Language Models.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Plan and execute large-group projects that carry through from ideation to production.
• Bring cross-functional alignment across engineering, product and other disciplines.
• Mentor a distributed team of engineers in subject matter expertise.
• Identify opportunities and gaps in existing models and strategize what to work on.
• Work closely with product teams to develop solutions.
• Engage in collaborations with our partner organizations.
• Assist our legal teams with preparation of patents on developed IP.

📌 Required Qualifications

• Prior experience in leading ML teams in applied research and production.
• Prior experience in setting as well as executing technical direction to build new or to refine existing products.
• Prior experience in working cross-discipline in matrixed organizations.
• Proficiency in Python and related ML frameworks such as Tensorflow, TF-Serving, JAX, and XLA/MLIR.
• Experience using large-scale distributed training and inference.
• Strong mentorship, communication, and problem-solving skills.
• A demonstrated passion for applied ML models and products.

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Experience working for B2B companies in the ML space.

🎁 Benefits

A weekly lunch stipend of $75/£75 or equivalent in your local currency for lunch. Full health and dental benefits, including a separate budget for mental health. 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, quality time, and a workspace improvement credit. Education & learning stipend for conferences, courses, and coaching. 6 weeks of paid vacation (30 working days!). Budget for traveling to other offices if you are remote, plus an annual company offsite.

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

Cohere is remote-friendly, but we also have offices in Toronto, London, New York City, San Francisco, Montreal, Paris, Berlin and Seoul with more opening soon. We strive to create an inclusive work environment for all; we welcome applicants from all backgrounds and are committed to providing equal opportunities.