Senior Research Engineer, Model Evaluation

Join to apply for the Senior Research Engineer, Model Evaluation role at Cohere. Our mission 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.

Why this role

Evaluation is critical to making progress in scaling intelligence. As models continue to become superhuman in many real-world use cases, we must continue to develop new techniques to accurately measure our models' performance on frontier capabilities. In this role, you are responsible for creating next-generation evaluation methods and scalable infrastructure to measure LLM progress.

Responsibilities

• Develop evaluation benchmarks, datasets, and environments for measuring the bleeding edge of model capabilities.
• Conduct research to push the state-of-the-art in LLM evaluation methods, including training LLM judges; improving evaluation efficiency; and scalably building high-quality datasets.
• Build scalable tools for investigating and understanding evaluation results that are used by all members of technical staff at Cohere, as well as leadership and our CEO.
• Learn from and work with the best researchers and engineers in the field.

You may be a good fit if

• You enjoy pushing the limits of what LLMs are capable of, and you have built high-quality evaluation resources to measure those capabilities (datasets, simulators, environments, etc.).
• You have a track record of developing new methods and/or data to evaluate LLMs, e.g. publications at top-tier conferences, popular benchmarks, etc.
• You have deep experience building with and around LLMs, and you have built tools for analyzing and understanding their performance.
• You have strong software engineering skills.

If some of the above doesn’t line up perfectly with your experience, we still encourage you to apply! If you want to work really hard on a glorious mission with teammates that want the same thing, Cohere is the place for you.

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.

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 6 months for employees based in Canada, the US, and the UK.
• 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 and London and co-working stipend.
• 6 weeks of vacation.