Senior Member of Technical Staff, Cohere
Multimodal AI
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Natural language processing AI platform
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Natural language processing AI platform
501-1000 employees
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501-1000 employees
Company mission
To build machines that understand the world, and to make them safely accessible to all.
Role
Who you are
- 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
- Have a deep passion for machine learning and its potential to impact various industries through multimodal applications
- Enjoy tuning and optimising large multimodal models, and have experience building evaluations to measure their performance
- Are comfortable diving into complex ML codebases to identify and resolve issues, ensuring the smooth operation of our systems
- Thrive in a fast-paced, technically challenging environment, where you can contribute your innovative ideas and solutions
- Have a history of delivering creative, practical solutions to real-world problems, demonstrating your ability to think outside the box
What the job involves
- At Cohere, we believe in the power of multimodal AI to revolutionise the way we interact with technology
- Our engineering teams push the boundaries of what's possible, and we're looking for talented individuals to join us on this exciting journey. With an exceptional ratio of compute resources to engineers, we provide an ideal environment for you to explore, innovate and shape the future of AI
- 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
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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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
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Leadership
Aidan Gomez
(CEO)Has a PhD in Computer Science from Oxford University. Previously worked as a Researcher at Google (Brain) and FOR.ai
Ivan Zhang
(CTO)Previous experience working in research and engineering at For.ai, Cortex labs, Pressly and Ranomics.
Nick Frosst
(CTO)Previously worked as a Research Engineer at Google (Brain).
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