Cohere

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

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12 months ago
Toronto, Canada +4 moreSenior
H1B Sponsor

Responsibilities

  • Design and write high-performing, scalable software for model training.
  • Develop tools that support and accelerate research and LLM training.
  • Coordinate with infrastructure, efficiency, serving, and scientific teams to build an integrated post-training ecosystem.
  • Implement techniques to improve performance and accelerate SFT, offline preference, and RL training cycles.
  • Research, implement, and experiment with ideas on cluster and data infrastructure.
  • Contribute production code and support team research efforts.

Requirements

  • Extremely strong software engineering skills.
  • Proficiency in Python and related ML frameworks such as JAX, PyTorch, and/or XLA/MLIR.
  • Experience using and debugging large-scale distributed training strategies, including memory and speed profiling.
  • Experience with distributed training infrastructure such as Kubernetes and associated frameworks such as Ray is a bonus.
  • Hands-on experience with model post-training, with an emphasis on scalability and performance, is a bonus.
  • Experience in ML, LLM, and RL academic research is a bonus.
  • Ability to work with complex ML codebases and collaborate with scientists, engineers, and colleagues with varying levels of software engineering experience.

Benefits

  • Open and inclusive culture and work environment
  • Work with a team on cutting-edge AI research
  • Weekly lunch stipend, in-office lunches, and snacks
  • Full health and dental benefits, including a separate mental health budget
  • 100% parental leave top-up for up to six months
  • Personal enrichment benefits for arts and culture, fitness and well-being, quality time, and workspace improvement
  • Remote-flexible work with offices in Toronto, New York, San Francisco, London, and Paris
  • Co-working stipend
  • Six weeks of vacation, equivalent to 30 working days

Categories

AI ResearchML Engineering
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About Cohere

201-500 employees

Cohere is the leading security-first enterprise AI company. We build cutting-edge foundation models and end-to-end AI products designed to solve real-world business problems. We partner closely with companies to deliver seamless integration, full customization, and easy-to-use solutions for their workforce and customers. Our all-in-one platform offers enterprises the highest levels of data security, privacy and optionality to deploy across all major cloud providers, private cloud environments, or on-premises. HQ: 171 John Street, 2nd Floor, Toronto, ON M5T 1X3