Who you are

• You need to be available for a full-time internship that lasts for 4-6 months
• Are currently pursuing, or in the process of obtaining, a PhD in Machine Learning, NLP, Artificial Intelligence, or a related discipline. We will also consider exceptional non-PhD candidates
• Are eligible for work authorization in the country of employment at the time of hire and maintain ongoing work authorization throughout the internship period
• Have experience using large-scale distributed training strategies, data annotation and evaluation pipelines, or implementing state of the art ML models
• Are familiar with autoregressive sequence models, such as Transformers
• Have strong communication and problem-solving skills with the ability to convey complex research findings clearly and succinctly
• Have knowledge, or are knowledgeable, of programming languages such as Python, C, C++, Lua, or related languages
• Have knowledge of related ML frameworks such as JAX, Pytorch and Tensorflow
• Have previous experience in building systems based on machine learning and deep learning techniques
• Demonstrate passion for applied NLP models and products
• Demonstrated expertise through publications in top tier venues in fields such as machine learning, NLP, artificial intelligence, computer vision, optimization, computer science, statistics, applied mathematics, or data science
• Proven ability to tackle analytical problems using quantitative methodologies
• Proficiency in handling and analysing complex, high-dimensional data from various sources
• Experience in applying theoretical and empirical research to real-world problem-solving

What the job involves

• To have the opportunity to collaborate with Cohere researchers and tools on designing and implementing novel research ideas and shipping state-of-the-art models to production
• We have openings in teams covering base model training, retrieval augmented generation, data and evaluation, safety, and finetuning, to name a few; and we are open to receiving intern applications in any research area relating to LLMs to broaden your research connections while obtaining deep experience in a growing AI startup
• Conduct cutting-edge machine learning research, building and training large language models
• Focus on research projects aimed at expanding the frontier of knowledge in language modelling and associate areas such as evaluation, multimodal models, optimisation etc
• Disseminate your research results through the production of publications, datasets, and code
• Contribute to research initiatives that have practical applications in Cohere’s product development

Benefits

• We cover 100% of premiums across health, dental, vision & travel
• We offer RRSP, 401K, and Pension Scheme contributions
• We offer lunch and fitness studio credits and a quality time fund which can be spent on things like dog walking and laundry services
• We want everyone who contributes to our success to get a ‘piece of the pie’
• Work Remote & PTO
• We know that some people work better at home, so we are remote-first, and sure that all meetings, events, and opportunities are set up for our distributed team
• Every employee at Cohere gets 6 weeks of paid time off & US and Canadian federal holidays, and we provide unlimited sick days
• All new parents (including those who adopt or go through a surrogate journey) are eligible to receive 100% salary for 6 months in Canada, the US, and the UK
• The decision and journey to having kids is different for each person and family. Part of our commitment to diversity is being able to support the widest variety of these scenarios as we can so we offer financial support for egg freezing and IVF for those in the US, Canada and the UK
• Every employee at Cohere receives an annual $2,000 education fund to use as they please