About the Role
- Cohere's mission is to scale intelligence to serve humanity by 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. The company emphasizes a culture of obsession over its products, with each team member contributing to increasing model capabilities and customer value, working hard and moving fast. Cohere is comprised of researchers, engineers, designers, and more, all passionate about their craft and believing in the importance of diverse perspectives for product development.
- The Applied ML team at Cohere partners with UK public sector organisations to unlock transformative value through secure, ethical deployment of Generative AI (GenAI) solutions. This role involves working directly with UK public sector customers to quickly understand their greatest problems and design and implement solutions using Cohere's stack. The successful candidate will apply 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! The role requires active SC Clearance (with willingness to obtain DV Clearance if needed).
Responsibilities
- Own and build large new areas within our product.
- Work across the backend, frontend, and interact with Large Language Models.
- Experiment at a high velocity and level of quality to engage our customers and eventually deliver solutions that exceed their expectations.
- Work across the entire product lifecycle from conceptualisation through production.
Requirements
- Proficiency in one or more of Go, Python, Node, React, Next.js.
- Experience building ML infrastructure and AI-powered solutions.
- Background in developing language models using frameworks like Lang Chain and evaluating their performance using tools such as the Llama Index.
- A track record in scaling products at hyper-growth startups.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability and interest to travel up to 25%, as needed to client sites, but flexible based on personal preferences.
Qualifications
- Mandatory: Active SC Clearance (DV Clearance preferred)
- UK citizenship with 8+ years in public sector technology roles
- Proven experience deploying AI/ML solutions in secure government environments
- Deep understanding of UK public sector ecosystems (Central/Local Government, NHS, Emergency Services)
- Familiarity with government cloud strategies (e.g., Crown Hosting, G-Cloud, MODNET) and data security frameworks
- Experience building LLM applications using tools such as Langchain.
- Experience in Information Retrieval systems for document question answering.
- Experience in day-to-day NLP for the industry using Python and related toolchains (SpaCy, HuggingFace, NLTK, etc.).
Benefits
- 🤝 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!)