Research Internship, Cohere

Salary not provided
Python
Tensorflow
C++
C
PyTorch
Lua
Remote in Canada, UK, US
London
New York
San Francisco Bay Area
Toronto
Cohere

Natural language processing AI platform

Open for applications

Cohere

Natural language processing AI platform

501-1000 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningSaaS

Open for applications

Salary not provided
Python
Tensorflow
C++
C
PyTorch
Lua
Remote in Canada, UK, US
London
New York
San Francisco Bay Area
Toronto

501-1000 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningSaaS

Company mission

To build machines that understand the world, and to make them safely accessible to all.

Role

Who you are

  • 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

Desirable

  • 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 be eligible for a Research Internship, you must be currently pursuing a PhD in Machine Learning, NLP, or a related discipline
  • You need to be available for a full-time internship that lasts for 4-6 months
  • We have offices in Toronto, San Francisco, New York, and London but embrace being remote-friendly
  • There are no restrictions on where you can be located for this role
  • 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

Our take

The AI industry biggest stakeholders insist that the next step in enhancing web experiences will be through natural language interactions. While this may be true, only companies with considerable resources can reasonably address the gap needed to bring NLP to the forefront of web integration. Cohere was founded to address this shortfall between NLP development, widespread usage, and the resources required.

Cohere works on building top-of-the-class NLP processing models and software which it makes available to customers through APIs and custom solutions. In a strategic move, the company has partnered with Google Cloud, giving them access to resources that will undoubtedly push the field of NLP forward. This allows Cohere to serve as middlemen by offering a wide range of customers a product built on unmatched technology.

AI is currently a worldwide talking point and so it is no surprise that Cohere has seen rapid development, and raised $270M in a 2023 funding round. The company plans to introduce a dialogue model that would resemble ChatGPT, however, in this case, its technology would be mainly accessible to developers and businesses.

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Top investors

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192% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)

Jul 2024

$500m

SERIES D

Mar 2023

$270m

SERIES C

Total funding: $940m

Company 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

Company values

  • We build for a positive future
  • We build for the many
  • We always stay curious
  • Now never stops, and that's pretty fun

Company HQ

Grange Park, Toronto, ON

Leadership

Has a PhD in Computer Science from Oxford University. Previously worked as a Researcher at Google (Brain) and FOR.ai

Previous experience working in research and engineering at For.ai, Cortex labs, Pressly and Ranomics.

Previously worked as a Research Engineer at Google (Brain).

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