Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This listing stands out in the current SaaS landscape because it sits at the intersection of enterprise software delivery and frontier AI adoption. Cohere is building and deploying large language models for developers and businesses, and the Applied ML focus signals work that is tightly coupled to real product constraints like reliability, latency, and integration patterns rather than purely offline research.
For a SaaS career, the role offers durable experience in translating ambiguous customer goals into production systems, a core competency in B2B software. The combination of end to end project ownership, cross functional alignment, and model strategy work maps well to how modern SaaS teams ship AI features such as semantic search, retrieval augmented generation, and agentic workflows. Exposure to both deployment and customer engagement also strengthens judgment around what is feasible, maintainable, and valuable in enterprise settings.
This position is best suited to engineers who prefer broad scope and are comfortable moving between technical depth and stakeholder coordination. It fits professionals who want to mentor others while still building, and who enjoy solving last mile implementation problems that determine whether AI capabilities become usable SaaS functionality. Remote work from Seoul also aligns with candidates who operate effectively in distributed collaboration.
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?
As a Member of Technical Staff on our Applied ML team, you will work directly with customers to quickly understand their greatest problems and design and implement solutions using Large Language Models.
You’ll apply your problem-solving ability, creativity, and technical skills to close the last-mile gap in Enterprise AI adoption. You’ll be able to deliver products like early startup CTOs/CEOs do and disrupt some of the most important industries and institutions globally!
As a Member of Technical Staff, you will:
Plan and execute large-group projects that carry through from ideation to production.
Bring cross-functional alignment across engineering, product and other disciplines.
Mentor a distributed team of engineers in subject matter expertise.
Identify opportunities and gaps in existing models and strategize what to work on.
Work closely with product teams to develop solutions.
Engage in collaborations with our partner organizations.Assist our legal teams with preparation of patents on developed IP.
Join us at a pivotal moment, shape what we build and wear multiple hats!
You may be a good fit if you have:
Prior experience in leading ML teams in applied research and production.
Prior experience in setting as well as executing technical direction to build new or to refine existing products.
Prior experience in working cross-discipline in matrixed organizations.
Proficiency in Python and related ML frameworks such as Tensorflow, TF-Serving, JAX, and XLA/MLIR.
Experience using large-scale distributed training and inference.
Strong mentorship, communication, and problem-solving skills.
A demonstrated passion for applied ML models and products.
Working proficiency in Korean, fluency preferred.
Bonus: experience working for B2B companies in the ML space.
*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 have a wide variety of backgrounds at Cohere.
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!)
