Cohere
Senior Member of Technical Staff, Safety for Agents
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Cohere: Member of Technical Staff in the Safety for Agents Team
Who Are We?
Cohere is the leading security-first enterprise AI company. We develop cutting-edge foundation AI models and end-to-end AI products designed to address real-world business challenges.
We specialise in training and deploying frontier models for businesses implementing AI systems. Our mission is crucial to advancing AI adoption, and we seek passionate individuals to contribute to this pivotal evolution.
Our team includes researchers, engineers, designers, and other experts united by our passion for excellence. We take pride in refining our models and their societal impact. As a global technology company, our offices are located in major cities worldwide:
- Toronto
- San Francisco
- London
- New York City
- Montreal
- Seoul
- Germany
- Paris
Join our mission today!
Why This Role?
As a Member of Technical Staff in the Safety for Agents team, you will play a pivotal role in shaping better, more fair, secure, and trustworthy Large Language Models (LLMs). Your responsibilities include:
- Generating data, refining post-training algorithms, and developing evaluation methods to ensure safety in future-generation models capable of interacting with external resources and taking real-world actions.
- Collaborating with cross-functional machine learning teams, data annotation teams, and product and policy divisions.
This position merges expertise in:
- Machine learning
- Ethical and responsible AI
- Experimental design and data generation/management
Your contributions will demand:
- Curiosity to address complex, new scientific challenges
- Engineering skills to build solutions, test hypotheses, and analyse data ethically
- A commitment to broader societal good, as you develop the next generation of LLMs that benefit everyone.
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This role empowers independence: You will work in a talented, autonomous team dedicated to enhancing LLMs’ societal value.
Location Flexibility
The existing team is based in:
- London
- Edinburgh
- Paris
- Toronto
- New York
However, we embrace remote work. For this role, we require at least ~50% overlap with the UK/EU timezone (e.g., US East is acceptable), but otherwise, there are no location restrictions.
Culture Fit & Experience
We encourage applications from candidates aligned with the following criteria:
- Strong statistical skills and experience evaluating scientific experiments related to data collection and model performance.
- Exceptional software engineering proficiency.
- Expertise in designing and deploying data collection tasks, including collaboration with human annotators.
- Hands-on experience with analysing datasets for quality, biases, and suitability for ML model training.
- Experience training LLMs on distributed computing platforms.
- Familiarity with improving generalizability and robustness of ML systems.
- Proficiency in programming languages like Python, ML frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX), and data science tools.
- Strong ability to communicate effectively across teams and present findings clearly.
- Ability to contribute insightful research—papers or demos with top-tier venues highly valued (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, MLSys, JMLR, AAAI, Nature, EMNLP, COLING, ACL).
We’re particularly eager to hear from candidates who fit this profile, but outliers are welcome. Enthusiasm matters too!
Employee Benefits at Cohere
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We believe talent deserves renewed energy, fulfilment, and excellence. Here’s what we offer:
Core Wellbeing
- Weekly lunch stipend: US$75 or its equivalent in local currency.
- Comprehensive health and dental benefits, inclusive of a mental health budget.
- RRSP, 401k, or Pension Scheme matching.
Family & Growth
- 100% Parental Leave top-up (up to 6 months for either parent per child).
- Annual Enrichment Benefits:
- Stipends for fitness, culture, workspace, conjugation club-style well-being, and more.
- Education & learning stipend covering courses, conferences, coaching, and professional development.
Health Outside the Workplace
- 6 weeks paid vacation (30 working days) annually.
- Travel budget for settling into remote positions, or company outsite trips.
- Home office stipend: US$500 to establish your workspace.
Flexible Workspace
- 100% remote-friendly workflow, with offices in Toronto, SF (San Francisco), NYC, London, Paris, Montreal, among other locations.
- Office benefits: Daily lunch program, snacks, and regular social and community events.
- For remote workers: A co-working stipend to collaborate locally in your city.
Inclusion & Accessibility
Cohere values diversity and strives to create an inclusive environment. We welcome all applicants and remain committed to equal opportunities.
If you require accommodations during recruitment, please submit an Accommodations Request Form, and we’ll be happy to support your needs.
We may use AI tools during selection to align applicants with role requirements. This process does not affect candidate consideration—we review every suitable application.
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