技术成员，预训练数据
Member of Technical Staff, Pre-Training Data
我们是谁？
Cohere 是一家以安全为首要任务的企业级人工智能公司。我们构建前沿的基础 AI 模型和端到端产品，旨在解决现实世界中的业务问题。
我们正在为正在构建 AI 系统的企业训练和部署前沿模型。我们认为我们的工作对 AI 的广泛应用至关重要，我们正在寻找希望参与其中的人才。
我们对所构建的产品充满热情。我们每个人都负责提升模型的能力以及为客户带来的价值。Cohere 是一个由研究人员、工程师、设计师等组成的团队，他们对各自的专业充满热情。
我们是一家总部位于多伦多的全球科技公司，在伦敦、纽约市、旧金山、蒙特利尔、巴黎、柏林和首尔设有主要办公室。加入我们吧！
职位概述：
作为专注于预训练数据的机器学习工程师，你将在开发支撑 Cohere 高级语言模型的数据管道中发挥关键作用。在此职位中，你将进行数据消融实验以评估数据质量，并构建预训练数据混合以提高模型性能。通过结合研究与工程，你将弥合原始数据与前沿 AI 模型之间的差距，直接对关键训练指标如吞吐量和加速器利用率的改进做出贡献。
你的工作对于 Cohere 提供高效且可靠的语言理解和生成能力的使命至关重要，推动自然语言处理领域的创新。如果你热衷于将数据转化为 AI 系统的基础，这个职位将为你提供一个独特的机会，产生有意义的影响。
请注意：我们在伦敦、巴黎、多伦多、旧金山和纽约设有办公室，同时也支持远程办公！此职位没有对您所在地的限制，只要在 EST 和 EU 时间区即可。
主要职责：
- 进行数据消融实验以评估数据质量，并尝试数据混合以提升模型性能。
- 开发稳健的数据建模技术，确保数据集结构和格式适合最优训练效率。
- 研究并实现创新的数据整理方法，利用 Cohere 的基础设施推动自然语言处理的进步。
- 与跨职能团队（包括研究人员和工程师）合作，确保数据管道满足需求
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Who are we?
Cohere is the leading security-first enterprise AI company. We build cutting-edge foundation AI models and end-to-end products that are designed to solve real-world business problems.
We’re training and deploying frontier models for enterprises who are building AI systems. We believe that our work is instrumental to the widespread adoption of AI and we are looking for folks that want to be part of that.
We obsess over what we build. Each one of us is responsible for contributing to increasing the capabilities of our models and the value they drive for our customers. Cohere is a team of researchers, engineers, designers, and more, who are all passionate about their craft.
We are a global technology company headquartered in Toronto with key offices in London, New York City, San Francisco, Montreal, Paris, Berlin and Seoul. Join us!
Role Overview:
As a Machine Learning Engineer specializing in pretraining data, you will play a pivotal role in developing the data pipeline that underpins Cohere’s advanced language models. In this role, you will conduct data ablations to evaluate data quality and construct pre-training data mixtures to enhance model performance. By combining research and engineering, you will bridge the gap between raw data and cutting-edge AI models, directly contributing to improvements in critical training metrics like throughput and accelerator utilization.
Your work will be essential to Cohere’s mission of delivering efficient and reliable language understanding and generation capabilities, driving innovation in natural language processing. If you are passionate about transforming data into the foundation of AI systems, this role offers a unique opportunity to make a meaningful impact.
Please Note: We have offices in London, Paris, Toronto, San Francisco and New York but also embrace being remote-friendly! There are no restrictions on where you can be located for this role between EST and EU.
Key Responsibilities:
- Conduct data ablations to assess data quality and experiment with data mixtures to enhance model performance.
- Develop robust data modeling techniques to ensure datasets are structured and formatted for optimal training efficiency.
- Research and implement innovative data curation methods, leveraging Cohere’s infrastructure to drive advancements in natural language processing.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including researchers and engineers, to ensure data pipelines meet the demands of cutting-edge language models.
Qualifications:
- Strong software engineering skills, with proficiency in Python and experience building data pipelines.
- Familiarity with curriculum learning, data mixing and data attribution.
- Familiarity with data processing frameworks such as Apache Spark, Apache Beam, Pandas, or similar tools.
- Experience working with large-scale datasets, including web data, code data, and multilingual corpora.
- Knowledge of data quality assessment techniques and experimentation with data mixtures.
- A passion for bridging research and engineering to solve complex data-related challenges in AI model training.
Bonus: paper 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 on the job description - there is no minimum in-office qualification requirement. We care most about hiring exceptional people regardless of locations, though please check the location listed on the posting for guidance around the core time zone or working hours alignment expected for the role.
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.
HOW AND WHERE WE WORK:
- Cohere is remote-friendly, but we also have offices in Toronto, London, New York City, San Francisco, Montreal, Paris, Berlin and Seoul with more opening soon.
- For those in the office: a daily lunch program, plenty of snacks, and regular community and social events.
- For those not near an office: a co-working benefit so you can work alongside others in your city.
- Everyone receives a $500 home office stipend to set up your workspace properly.
If any of the above doesn’t line up exactly with your experience, we still encourage you to apply.
We strive to create an inclusive work environment for all; we welcome applicants from all backgrounds and are committed to providing equal opportunities. Should you require any accommodations during the recruitment process, please submit an Accommodations Request Form https://docs.google.com/forms/d/12a6IrLdF3kI2nonKSr4tiFuz18rLQbaeYV-JM9L4o9Q/edit, and we will work together to meet your needs.
We may use AI-enabled tools to screen and assess applicants against the criteria for this position. This helps our recruiters identify potentially qualified candidates, but it doesn't limit the applications our recruiters may review or consider.
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