Senior Research Engineer - Safety Tooling and Data

Cohere is the leading security-first enterprise AI company. As a Senior Research Engineer in the Safety team, you will develop tools for data synthesis and management, collaborating closely with research scientists and engineers to enhance model training and evaluation processes.

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

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) and Big Data Analytics (e.g. BigQuery, SQL)
• 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