Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Member of Technical Staff role sits at the intersection of AI infrastructure and product delivery, a growing seam in SaaS where model capability only matters if it can be deployed reliably for enterprise use cases. The “Sovereign AI” framing also signals work shaped by regulated, security conscious customers, which is an increasingly common buying center for AI enabled SaaS and platform companies.
For SaaS career development, the role offers exposure to the full lifecycle that many AI product teams struggle to connect: research iteration, systems engineering, and production operations. Experience designing agentic systems, working with large scale distributed training, and shipping model backed features translates across modern SaaS stacks, from search and RAG to workflow automation and developer platforms. The emphasis on writing production code alongside experimentation aligns with how high impact SaaS engineering is often measured: measurable capability improvements that survive real world constraints.
This position is best suited to engineers who want breadth across the AI stack and are comfortable moving between exploratory work and maintainable software. It will appeal to professionals who value rigorous engineering in environments where compliance and customer criticality influence technical decisions, and who are motivated by building foundations rather than only integrating third party models.
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 - Sovereign AI, 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!)
