Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Cohere is a company focused on scaling intelligence to serve humanity through advanced AI systems. They are seeking a Senior Member of Technical Staff to design and develop cutting-edge multimodal AI systems, integrating various modalities such as text, speech, and vision, while collaborating with world-class teams.
Responsibilities
- Design and develop cutting-edge multimodal AI systems, integrating various modalities such as text, speech, and vision
- Conduct research and experiments on our advanced compute infrastructure, exploring novel ideas in multimodal representation learning, transfer learning, and more
- Collaborate closely with our world-class teams, learning from and contributing to their expertise in the field
Skills
- Possess exceptional software engineering skills, with a proven track record of building robust and scalable systems
- Have a strong command of Python and are well-versed in popular deep learning frameworks like JAX, PyTorch, and TensorFlow, with an understanding of their multimodal capabilities
- Knowledge of distributed training strategies, especially for large-scale multimodal models
- Familiarity with autoregressive models, particularly their application in multimodal tasks such as image or video captioning, speech-to-text generation
- Bonus: Publications in top-tier venues demonstrating your expertise in multimodal AI research
- Bonus: Experience in writing efficient GPU kernels using CUDA, optimising performance for multimodal tasks
Benefits
- An open and inclusive culture and work environment
- Work closely with a team on the cutting edge of AI research
- Weekly lunch stipend, in-office lunches & snacks
- Full health and dental benefits, including a separate budget to take care of your mental health
- 100% Parental Leave top-up for up to 6 months
- Personal enrichment benefits towards arts and culture, fitness and well-being, quality time, and workspace improvement
- Remote-flexible, offices in Toronto, New York, San Francisco, London and Paris, as well as a co-working stipend
- 6 weeks of vacation (30 working days!)
Company Overview
Cohere develops enterprise artificial intelligence software and provides language models, retrieval tools, and workplace platforms. It was founded in 2019, and is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, CAN, with a workforce of 201-500 employees. Its website is https://cohere.com.Company H1B Sponsorship
Cohere has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 11 in 2025, 14 in 2024, 13 in 2023, 5 in 2022, 2 in 2021. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.