Member of Technical Staff, Integration/RL Team (Research Engineer)

Our mission is to scale intelligence to serve humanity. We’re training and deploying frontier models for developers and enterprises who are building AI systems to power magical experiences like content generation, semantic search, RAG, and agents. We believe that our work is instrumental to the widespread adoption of AI.

We obsess over what we build. Each one of us is responsible for contributing to increasing the capabilities of our models and the value they drive for our customers. We like to work hard and move fast to do what’s best for our customers.

Cohere is a team of researchers, engineers, designers, and more, who are passionate about their craft. Each person is one of the best in the world at what they do. We believe that a diverse range of perspectives is a requirement for building great products.

Join us on our mission and shape the future!

The integration team is responsible for developing and scaling machine learning algorithms and infrastructure for LLM post-training, with a focus on large-scale, distributed RL methods. We strive for excellence in both engineering and science by meticulously designing experiments and design docs. While tasks are assigned according to everyone’s expertise, there is a global team effort to write production code and support the team research efforts, depending on individual interests and organizational needs.

In particular, this role aims to enhance the global quality of the post-training codebase by implementing new tools to ease and support research, optimizing post-training algorithms, and scaling distributed RL to unprecedented levels.

Please Note: We have offices in London, Paris, Toronto, San Francisco, New York but we are also remote-friendly! Applicants for this role may work anywhere between UTC−06:00 and UTC+01:00.

As a Member of Technical Staff, you will:

• Design and write high-performing and scalable software for training models.

• Develop new tools to support and accelerate research and LLM training.

• Coordinate with other engineering teams (Infrastructure, Efficiency, Serving) and the scientific teams (Agent, Multimodal, Multilingual, etc.) to create a strong and integrated post-training ecosystem.

• Craft and implement techniques to improve performance and speed up our training cycles, both on SFT, offline preference, and the RL regime.

• Research, implement, and experiment with ideas on our cluster and data infrastructure.

• Collaborate, Collaborate, and Collaborate with other scientists, engineers, and teams!

You are an ideal candidate if you have:

• Extremely strong software engineering skills.

• Value test-driven development methods, clean code, and strive to reduce technical debts at all levels.

• Proficiency in Python and related ML frameworks such as JAX, Pytorch and/or XLA/MLIR.

• Experience using and debugging large-scale distributed training strategies (memory/speed profiling).

• [Bonus] Experience with distributed training infrastructures (Kubernetes) and associated frameworks (Ray).

• [Bonus] Hands-on experience with the post-training phase of model training, with a strong emphasis on scalability and performance.

• [Bonus] Experience in ML, LLM and RL academic research.

This role is perfect for you if you:

• Have a deep passion for quality work.

• Enjoy tuning and optimising large LLM models.

• Comfortable working with people with different levels of software engineering skills, from beginner to more advanced.

• Comfortable diving into complex ML codebases to identify and resolve issues, ensuring the smooth operation of our systems.

• Thrive in a fast-paced, technically challenging environment, where you can contribute your innovative ideas and solutions.

If some of the above doesn’t line up perfectly with your experience, we still encourage you to apply!

We value and celebrate diversity and strive to create an inclusive work environment for all. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and are committed to providing equal opportunities. Should you require any accommodations during the recruitment process, please submit an Accommodations Request Form, and we will work together to meet your needs.