Member of Technical Staff - Sovereign AI

Cohere Cohere · AI Frontier · Canada · Modeling

Cohere is seeking a Member of Technical Staff for their Sovereign AI team in Canada. This role involves designing, building, and scaling agentic AI systems for mission-critical use cases, researching and implementing ideas on supercompute and data infrastructure, and executing across the full AI stack to ship products. The role requires Canadian citizenship and eligibility for security clearance, strong software engineering skills, proficiency in Python and ML frameworks, and experience with large-scale LLM training strategies. There is a strong emphasis on both research and production code.

What you'd actually do

  1. Design, build and scale agentic AI systems for serving mission critical use cases.
  2. Research, implement, and experiment with ideas on our supercompute and data infrastructure.
  3. Learn from and work with the best researchers in the field.
  4. Execute across the full AI stack and ship products to serve public interest.

Skills

Required

  • Canadian citizenship and eligibility for security clearance
  • Extremely strong software engineering skills
  • Proficiency in Python and related ML frameworks
  • Experience training, evaluating, and using (as an end-user) LLMs
  • Experience using large-scale distributed (GPU) LLM training strategies

Nice to have

  • paper at top-tier venues (such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, AIStats, MLSys, JMLR, AAAI, Nature, COLING, ACL, EMNLP)

What the JD emphasized

  • Canadian citizenship and eligibility for security clearance (required for this role)

Other signals

  • design and implement novel research ideas
  • ship state of the art models to production
  • design, build and scale agentic AI systems
  • execute across the full AI stack and ship products