Member of Technical Staff - Post-training (Data Infrastructure)

Who are we?

Role Overview
As a Member of Technical Staff in Post-Training Data Infrastructure, you will build and own the pipelines that produce the post-training data for our large language models (LLMs), from SFT and RL data to synthetic and human-annotated data. You will work closely with researchers and annotation teams so they can iterate on data as quickly as they iterate on models.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and maintain data pipelines for SFT, preference, and RL post-training data.
• Own dataset quality, versioning, and reproducibility.
• Turn research data recipes into production-grade, reusable components.
• Scale model inference for data generation and model-based grading.
• Design data formats and schemas that keep post-training datasets consistent and efficient to train on.
• Collaborate with researchers and engineers to make sure data pipelines keep pace with the needs of cutting-edge language models.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering skills.
• Experience designing and building large-scale data pipelines for machine learning, ideally for LLM post-training.
• Track record of running distributed data processing and model inference at scale.
• Good understanding of post-training methods (e.g., SFT, RLHF, DPO) and how data shapes model behaviour.
• Excellent communication skills.

This is neither an exhaustive nor necessary set of attributes. Even if none of these apply to you, but you believe you will contribute to Cohere, please reach out. We value diverse backgrounds and perspectives at Cohere

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.