Senior Member of Technical Staff, Multimodal AI

Cohere • San Francisco, CA

60d • Remote

About The Position

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. With an exceptional ratio of compute resources to engineers, we provide an ideal environment for you to explore, innovate and shape the future of AI.

July 31st 2025 - Cohere's Multimodal team Introduced Command A Vision: Multimodal AI Built for Business. At release our new flagship vision-language model:

● Consistently outperforms major models like Llama 4 Maverick, Mistral Medium/Pixtral Large, and GPT4.1

● 83.1% average benchmark (73.5% MathVista, 90.9% ChartQA...)

● Built for the real world - 112B parameters running on just 2 GPUs

● Open weights live on HuggingFace

With a focused team, breakthrough performance doesn't require breakthrough compute. Focus on the things that matter, and join the team.

Requirements

• 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.

Nice To Haves

• Publications in top-tier venues demonstrating your expertise in multimodal AI research.
• Experience in writing efficient GPU kernels using CUDA, optimising performance for multimodal tasks.

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.

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!)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Publishing Industries
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 251-500 employees