Senior Research Engineer Safety Tooling and Data
Toronto-founded enterprise AI company building foundation models, agentic AI, enterprise search, and private deployment products.
About Cohere
Cohere provides enterprise-focused AI models and end-to-end products, including North for agentic workplace AI, Compass for enterprise search, and models for generation and retrieval. It supports private, VPC, and on-premises deployment options.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will design and implement data-pipeline tooling for data generation, annotation, analysis, and management. You will build infrastructure that supports model experimentation, establish validation processes, develop coverage-analysis frameworks, and create documented technical standards.
Requirements
- Software engineering
- Statistics
- Scientific experiment evaluation
- Python
- PyTorch
- BigQuery
- SQL
- Technical architecture
- ML data requirements
- Data engineering
- Modeling workflow
Responsibilities
- Design and implement data-pipeline tooling for frequent data generation and annotation
- Create data infrastructure that supports parallel model experimentation
- Establish processes for data validation, analysis, and improvement
- Collaborate with ML modeling to align data capabilities with experimental needs
- Maintain documented solutions that become team standards
- Develop analysis frameworks to identify data sources and benchmark coverage gaps
Benefits
- Weekly lunch stipend
- Health and dental benefits
- Mental health budget
- RRSP matching
- 401K
- Pension Scheme
- Parental leave top-up for up to six months
- Arts and culture credit
- Fitness and wellness credit
- Quality-time credit
- Workspace improvement credit
- Six weeks of paid vacation
- Remote-office travel budget
- Annual company offsite
- Co-working benefit
- Home office stipend