Sovereign AI Intern

Who are we?

Our mission at Cohere is to scale intelligence to serve humanity. We’re training and deploying frontier models for developers and enterprises who are building AI systems to power magical experiences like content generation, semantic search, RAG, and agents. We believe that our work is instrumental to the widespread adoption of AI.

We obsess over what we build. Each one of us is responsible for contributing to increasing the capabilities of our models and the value they drive for our customers. We like to work hard and move fast to do what’s best for our customers.

Cohere is a team of researchers, engineers, designers, and more, who are passionate about their craft. Each person is one of the best in the world at what they do. We believe that a diverse range of perspectives is a requirement for building great products.

Join us on our mission and shape the future!

About the Role: Sovereign AI Intern

As a Sovereign AI Intern, you will:

• Design, train and improve upon cutting-edge models to serve public interest.
• Help us develop new techniques to train and serve models safer, better, and faster.
• Train extremely large-scale models on massive datasets.
• Learn from experienced senior machine learning technical staff.
• Work closely with product teams to develop solutions.

What You'll Bring

You may be a good fit if you have:

• Proficiency in Python and related ML frameworks.
• Experience using large-scale distributed training strategies.
• Strong communication and problem-solving skills.
• Bonus: Canadian citizenship.
• Bonus: papers at top-tier venues (such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, AIStats, MLSys, JMLR, AAAI, Nature, COLING, ACL, EMNLP).

If some of the above doesn’t line up perfectly with your experience, we still encourage you to apply!

We value and celebrate diversity and strive to create an inclusive work environment for all. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and are committed to providing equal opportunities. Should you require any accommodations during the recruitment process, please submit an Accommodations Request Form, and we will work together to meet your needs.

Cohere Perks

Full-Time Employees At Cohere Enjoy These Perks:

• 🤝 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!).

Key skills/competency

• AI Model Design
• Machine Learning
• Distributed Training
• Python Programming
• Deep Learning
• Natural Language Processing
• Problem Solving
• Large-Scale Data
• Model Deployment
• Research & Development