# Member of Technical Staff, Data Analysis and Evaluation **Company**: Cohere **Location**: London; Montreal; New York; Paris; San Francisco; Toronto **Work arrangement**: remote **Experience**: senior **Job type**: Full time **Salary**: CA$250K - CA$535K **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Technology **Apply**: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/cohere/61703710-4379-42fd-a508-946f2a5fb6bc?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_eab7f016-084 ## Description ## Compensation - Canada - Toronto (GTA), Montreal: Base Salary CA$295K – CA$535K • Offers Equity - Canada: Base Salary CA$250K – CA$460K • Offers Equity - USA - California, New York and Washington: Base Salary $205K – $380K • Offers Equity - USA - All Other States: Base Salary $175K – $325K • Offers Equity Cohere is committed to fair and transparent pay practices. The compensation range listed for this role reflects the expected compensation. Actual compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, level, job-related knowledge, skills, education, and experience. ## Role Overview: As a Member of Technical Staff in Data Analysis and Evaluation, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring the quality, reliability, and performance of our large language models (LLMs). Your primary focus will be on designing and conducting data collection tasks, assessing and evaluating dataset quality, and analysing the robustness and generalisability of our models. You will work closely with cross-functional teams, including researchers, engineers, and data annotators, to conduct data-driven decision-making and improve the overall effectiveness of our AI systems. This role combines expertise in statistics, experimental design incl. human annotators, and machine learning to ensure that our models are trained on high-quality data and perform reliably across diverse scenarios. You will contribute to Cohere’s mission of advancing AI by ensuring our systems are robust, scalable, and impactful. ## Key Responsibilities: - Design and oversee data collection tasks, including supporting human annotators and ensuring data quality. - Develop and apply statistical methods to evaluate the quality and reliability of datasets. - Analyse and assess the generalisability and robustness of ML systems across diverse use cases. - Collaborate with teams to improve dataset quality and model performance. - Train and fine-tune large language models (LLMs) on distributed training infrastructures. - Conduct experiments to evaluate model performance and identify areas for improvement. ## Qualifications: - Extremely strong software engineering skills. - Strong expertise in designing and conducting data collection tasks, including working with human annotators. - Strong statistical skills and experience evaluating scientific experiments related to data collection and model performance. - Experience analysing datasets with respect to their quality, biases, and suitability for training ML models. - Hands-on experience training large language models (LLMs) on distributed training infrastructures. - Familiarity with evaluating and improving the generalisability and robustness of ML systems. - Proficiency in programming languages such as Python and ML frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX). - Excellent communication skills to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and present findings. - One or more papers at top-tier venues (such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, AIStats, MLSys, JMLR, AAAI, Nature, COLING, ACL, EMNLP). ## Working Location: This role can be based remotely or from one of our office locations listed - there is no minimum in-office qualification requirement. We care most about hiring exceptional people regardless of locations. ## Full-Time Employees at Cohere enjoy these Perks: - 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. ## Skills ### Required - Python - PyTorch - TensorFlow - JAX - machine learning - statistics - data analysis - data collection - experimental design --- Source: [Apply at jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/cohere/61703710-4379-42fd-a508-946f2a5fb6bc?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)