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From the employer's careers site First seen 25 Oct 2026

Senior Member of Technical Staff, Multimodal AI

Cohere San Francisco; Montreal; New York; Paris; San Francisco; Toronto Remote senior Full time

Salary

CA$250K - CA$535K per year

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Description

At Cohere, we believe in the power of multimodal AI to revolutionise the way we interact with technology. Our engineering teams push the boundaries of what's possible, and we're looking for talented individuals to join us on this exciting journey.

Job Description:

Design and develop cutting-edge multimodal AI systems, integrating various modalities such as text, speech, and vision. Conduct research and experiments on our advanced compute infrastructure, exploring novel ideas in multimodal representation learning, transfer learning, and more. Collaborate closely with our world-class teams, learning from and contributing to their expertise in the field.

Responsibilities:

  • Design and develop cutting-edge multimodal AI systems, integrating various modalities such as text, speech, and vision.
  • Conduct research and experiments on our advanced compute infrastructure, exploring novel ideas in multimodal representation learning, transfer learning, and more.
  • Collaborate closely with our world-class teams, learning from and contributing to their expertise in the field.

Qualifications:

  • Possess exceptional software engineering skills, with a proven track record of building robust and scalable systems.
  • Have a strong command of Python and are well-versed in popular deep learning frameworks like JAX, PyTorch, and TensorFlow, with an understanding of their multimodal capabilities.
  • Knowledge of distributed training strategies, especially for large-scale multimodal models.
  • Familiarity with autoregressive models, particularly their application in multimodal tasks such as image or video captioning, speech-to-text generation.

Benefits:

  • A weekly lunch stipend of $75/£75 or equivalent in your local currency for lunch.
  • Full health and dental benefits, including a separate budget for mental health.
  • RRSP matching, 401K, Pension Scheme.
  • 100% Parental Leave top-up for up to 6 months, for either parent.
  • Annual enrichment benefits: Arts & culture, fitness/wellness, quality time, and a workspace improvement credit.
  • Education & learning stipend for conferences, courses, and coaching.
  • 6 weeks of paid vacation (30 working days!)
  • Budget for traveling to other offices if you are remote, plus an annual company offsite.

Location: This role can be based remotely or from one of our office locations listed on the job description - there is no minimum in-office qualification requirement.

Skills

Required

Nice to have

  • publications in top-tier venues
  • experience in writing efficient GPU kernels using CUDA

Ready to apply?

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