Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Member of Technical Staff role sits at the intersection of modern SaaS delivery and frontier AI infrastructure, focused on deploying model-backed capabilities for enterprise and developer use cases. Within the SaaS ecosystem, roles that span research and production engineering are increasingly central as AI features move from experimentation into dependable, customer-facing systems. The explicit public sector orientation also signals work where reliability, auditability, and deployment constraints shape technical decisions in ways that differ from consumer-first SaaS.
For a SaaS career, the standout value is end-to-end exposure across the AI stack, from experimentation on large-scale compute to shipping systems that support mission-critical workflows. That combination builds durable experience in operationalizing complex technology, including evaluation, iteration loops, and maintaining production services under real-world requirements. Work that connects to academia and government can also broaden perspective on how SaaS platforms are adopted in regulated environments.
This role tends to suit engineers who prefer breadth and ambiguity, and who enjoy switching between building and investigating rather than staying in a single lane. It is a strong match for professionals motivated by applied AI outcomes and comfortable with the expectations that come with public sector deployments, including eligibility for security clearance and a focus on dependable execution.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
Who are we?
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.
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!
Why this role?
Design and implement novel research ideas, ship state of the art models to production, and maintain deep connections to academia and the government. We have one of the highest ratio of compute to engineers in the world. We do not delineate strongly between engineering and research. Everyone will contribute to writing production code and conducting research depending on individual interest and organizational needs. We have all the compute, data, and talent available for you to do your best work.
As a Member of Technical Staff - Public Sector, you will:
Design, build and scale agentic AI systems for serving mission critical use cases.
Research, implement, and experiment with ideas on our supercompute and data infrastructure.
Learn from and work with the best researchers in the field.
Execute across the full AI stack and ship products to serve public interest.
You may be a good fit if you have:
Canadian citizenship and eligibility for security clearance (required for this role).
Extremely strong software engineering skills.
Proficiency in Python and related ML frameworks.
Experience training, evaluating, and using (as an end-user) LLMs.
Experience using large-scale distributed (GPU) LLM training strategies.
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!
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.
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!)
