Senior Research Scientist, Cohere Labs

Cohere Inc.

Job Overview

Location

London

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• We are a global technology company co-headquartered in Toronto and San Francisco, with key offices in London, New York City, Montreal, Seoul, Germany and Paris.
• Cohere Labs is the dedicated research arm of Cohere, pushing the boundaries of machine learning by tackling frontier challenges and opening new pathways for discovery.
• As a Senior Research Scientist at Cohere Labs, you’ll drive an independent, high-impact research agenda on frontier topics in AI.
• You’ll have the freedom to ask ambitious questions, explore the unknown, and publish your findings openly.
• We’re particularly excited by work that not only advances science, but also engages with the societal implications of machine learning.
• You may be a fit if you have a PhD (or equivalent research experience) with a strong track record of publications in ML, AI, statistics, or related fields.
• You bring expertise or deep curiosity in areas such as efficiency, optimization, reasoning, multimodality, agentic systems, human–AI collaboration.
• You have solid machine learning and NLP fundamentals, with experience in shaping and executing original research.
• You enjoy collaborating across disciplines and geographies.
• You care about mentoring and supporting the next generation of researchers.

🎯 Requirements

• PhD (or equivalent research experience) with a strong track record of publications in ML, AI, statistics, or related fields.
• Expertise or deep curiosity in areas such as efficiency, optimization, reasoning, multimodality, agentic systems, human–AI collaboration.
• Solid machine learning and NLP fundamentals, with experience in shaping and executing original research.
• Ability to collaborate across disciplines and geographies.
• Passion for mentoring and supporting the next generation of researchers.

🏖️ 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.

Skills & Technologies

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Remote

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About Cohere Inc.

Cohere provides large language models and retrieval-augmented generation APIs for enterprise developers to embed conversational AI, search, summarization, and content generation into applications. Founded in 2021 by former Google Brain researchers, the company offers cloud and on-premise deployment, fine-tuning tools, and multilingual support to help organizations automate workflows, improve customer support, and analyze unstructured data while maintaining data privacy and security controls.

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