Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This internship stands out in the SaaS landscape because it sits close to the product surface area that many SaaS businesses rely on: APIs, developer platforms, and the infrastructure that turns complex capabilities into reliable services. With Cohere’s focus on deploying models for enterprise and developer use cases, the role reflects a modern SaaS pattern where usage-based products depend on robust serving systems, data pipelines, and well-designed developer experiences.
For someone building a SaaS engineering career, the value is in learning how production software is shipped when the “product” is both user-facing and platform-facing. Exposure to CI/CD, internal tooling, service scalability, and API feature work maps directly to the operational realities of SaaS teams, where reliability, iteration speed, and measurable impact matter. The breadth across frontend, backend, and infrastructure also builds a stronger mental model of how SaaS systems are assembled and maintained over time.
This role is best suited to early-career engineers who want hands-on ownership and are comfortable contributing to production code. It will appeal to candidates who like switching between product features and enabling work, and who are motivated by improving developer workflows as much as delivering end-user functionality.
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?
This role is for students who are excited about building the next generation of machine learning models and NLP products. Our SWE roles can cover creating datasets for machine learning, scaling the pods to serve our API, or even building out new security features on our platform. We don't distinguish much between interns and full-time employees, and you’ll have plenty of opportunities to push code to production. You'll have full autonomy and ownership over high-impact work, and will be backed by the support of an incredible team or leaders & mentors.
Join us at a pivotal moment, shape what we build, and wear multiple hats!
We're currently hiring for multiple teams and roles, including Frontend, Backend, Full-stack, and Infrastructure roles. We'll take your interests & experience into account throughout the application process.
Our recruitment process will begin in the upcoming weeks, and we will be carefully reviewing applications and assessing potential candidates for our internships. Should we find a suitable match with your qualifications and our requirements, we will be in touch to discuss the opportunity further and to advance your application to the next stage.
Please Note: To be eligible for this position, you should be currently enrolled in a post-secondary program and available for a full-time 3-6 month internship, co-op, or research work term.
As a Software Engineering Intern, you will:
Ship delightful experiences for our user-facing products, meticulously crafting code for browsers or server code.
Build features for the API platform that directly impact users.
Design and implement robust data pipelines (crawlers, storage, filters).
Design and implement scalable services or infrastructure for machine learning development.
Build internal tooling (CI/CD, dev utilities) to move faster together.
Build tech writing skills through maintaining and contributing to technical documentation, both internal and external facing.
Keep up with the cutting edge and adopt new technologies to improve performance and reliability across Cohere.
If some of the above doesn’t line up perfectly with your experience, we still encourage you to apply! If you consider yourself a thoughtful worker, a lifelong learner, and a kind and playful team member, 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.
Our Perks:
🤝 An open and inclusive culture and work environment
🧑💻 Work closely with a team on the cutting edge of AI research
🍽 Free daily lunch
🦷 Full health and dental benefits, including a separate budget to take care of your mental health
🎨 Personal enrichment benefits towards arts and culture, fitness and well-being
🏙 Remote-flexible, offices in Toronto, New York, San Francisco and London and coworking stipends
✈️ Paid vacation
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!)
