Senior Member of Technical Staff, Web Data

Who are we?

Role Overview:
As a Senior Member of Technical Staff specializing in web data for pre-training, you will play a pivotal role in developing the large scale web data pipeline that underpins Cohere’s advanced language models. In this role, you will work extensively with large-scale web corpora, transforming raw, noisy internet data into high-quality training data for pretraining. You will own key components of the data pipeline, including extraction, parsing, deduplication, and filtering. You will also analyze the composition and quality of web data, study its impact on downstream model performance, and collaborate closely with the broader data and evaluation teams to iterate on the training corpus.

Your work will be essential to Cohere’s mission of delivering efficient and reliable language understanding and generation capabilities, driving innovation in natural language processing. If you are passionate about transforming data into the foundation of AI systems, this role offers a unique opportunity to make a meaningful impact.

Please Note: We have offices in London, Paris, Toronto, San Francisco and New York but also embrace being remote-friendly! There are no restrictions on where you can be located for this role. (EST/EU)

Key Responsibilities:

• Maintain large-scale pipelines for processing web corpora.
• Work on filtering and quality-scoring systems to identify high-value web documents.
• Analyze web data composition across domains, languages and time periods.
• Develop and maintain highly-performant deduplication pipelines.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including researchers and engineers, to ensure data pipelines meet the demands of cutting-edge language models.

Qualifications:

• Strong software engineering skills, with proficiency in Python and experience building data pipelines.
• Familiarity with data processing frameworks such as Apache Spark, Apache Beam, Pandas, or similar tools.
• Experience working with large-scale web datasets.
• Knowledge of data quality assessment techniques and experimentation with data mixtures.
• A passion for bridging research and engineering to solve complex data-related challenges in AI model training.

Bonus: paper 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!

Working Location:
This role can be based remotely or from one of our office locations listed on the job description - there is no minimum in-office qualification requirement. We care most about hiring exceptional people regardless of locations, though please check the location listed on the posting for guidance around the core time zone or working hours alignment expected for the role.

Full-Time Employees at Cohere enjoy these Perks:

• A weekly lunch stipend of $75/£75 or equivalent in your local currency for lunch.
• Full health and dental benefits, including a separate budget for mental health.
• RRSP matching, 401K, Pension Scheme.
• 100% Parental Leave top-up for up to 6 months, for either parent.
• Annual enrichment benefits:

• 6 weeks of paid vacation (30 working days!)
• Budget for traveling to other offices if you are remote, plus an annual company offsite.

How and Where We Work:

• Cohere is remote-friendly, but we also have offices in Toronto, London, New York City, San Francisco, Montreal, Paris, Berlin and Seoul with more opening soon.
• For those in the office: a daily lunch program, plenty of snacks, and regular community and social events.
• For those not near an office: a co-working benefit so you can work alongside others in your city.
• Everyone receives a $500 home office stipend to set up your workspace properly.