Senior Research Engineer - Safety Tooling and Data

Cohere•New York, NY

2d•$230,000 - $380,000•Remote

About The Position

As a Senior Research Engineer in our Safety team, you will play a key role in helping develop safer, more secure, and more reliable models. Your primary focus will be on building tools to enable easy data synthesis, analysis, and management, for complex combinations of real and synthetic data that is used in both model training and evaluation. You will own the cohesive vision of these tooling repositories. You will work closely with a team of research scientists and engineers to create tooling that enables tighter experimentation cycles, better data coverage of the real world, and more scientific rigour. You will have a lot of autonomy and need to be opinionated about what areas of the codebase need elegance and standards, and where that would be overengineering. You will be given high level experimental problems that need to be solved with efficient pipelines, and design and implement the solutions. Your data analysis will collaboratively feed into modelling decisions and experimentation. This role combines expertise in software engineering, statistics, and data science. If any of these topics sound interesting to you, we encourage you to apply. You will be working on the Modelling Safety and Trust team, so interest in these areas is a plus, but is not at all required.

Requirements

Extremely strong software engineering skills.
Strong statistical skills and experience evaluating scientific experiments related to data collection and model performance.
Proficiency in programming languages such as Python and ML frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX).
Demonstrated ability to own complex technical projects from conception to deployment
Opinionated approach to technical architecture with ability to make principled decisions
Understanding of ML data requirements and the intersection of data engineering with modeling workflows

Nice To Haves

Interest in Modelling Safety and Trust

Responsibilities

Design and implement robust data pipeline tooling that enables frequent, low-friction data generation and annotation
Create cohesive data infrastructure that supports continuous parallel operation with model experimentation
Establish standardized processes for data validation, analysis, and improvement of data both training and evaluation
Collaborate with the ML modeling team to align data capabilities with experimental needs
Maintain opinionated, well-documented solutions that become team standards
Develop systematic analysis frameworks to identify incoming data sources and benchmark coverage gaps

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.
A daily lunch program, plenty of snacks, and regular community and social events (for those in the office).
A co-working benefit so you can work alongside others in your city (for those not near an office).
$500 home office stipend to set up your workspace properly.