Research Internship (Fall, Winter 2026)Active

The opportunity

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.

What you'll do

  • Conduct cutting-edge machine learning research, building and training large language models.

  • Focus on research projects aimed at expanding the frontier of knowledge in: language modelling and associate areas such as evaluation, multimodal models, optimisation etc.

  • Disseminate your research results through the production of publications, datasets, and code.

  • Contribute to research initiatives that have practical applications in Cohere’s product development.

  • Are currently pursuing, or in the process of obtaining, a PhD in Machine: Learning, NLP, Artificial Intelligence, or a related discipline. We will also consider exceptional non-PhD candidates.

  • Are eligible for work authorization in the country of employment at the time: of hire and maintain ongoing work authorization throughout the internship period.

What they're looking for

  • Have experience using large-scale distributed training strategies, data: annotation and evaluation pipelines, or implementing state of the art ML models.
  • Are familiar with autoregressive sequence models, such as Transformers.
  • Have strong communication and problem-solving skills with the ability to: convey complex research findings clearly and succinctly.
  • Have knowledge, or are knowledgeable, of programming languages such as: Python, C, C++, Lua, or related languages.