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Member of Technical Staff - Post-training (Data Infrastructure)

Cohere

United States · Canada · Full-time · Onsite · Posted Oct 14, 2026

At a glance

Employment
Full-time
Workplace
Onsite
Location
United States · Canada

About the role

  • As a Member of Technical Staff in Post-Training Data Infrastructure, you will build and own the pipelines that produce the post-training data for large language models.
  • Work closely with researchers and annotation teams to enable rapid data iteration.

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain data pipelines for SFT, preference, and RL post-training data.
  • Own dataset quality, versioning, and reproducibility.
  • Turn research data recipes into production-grade, reusable components.
  • Scale model inference for data generation and model-based grading.
  • Design data formats and schemas that keep post-training datasets consistent and efficient to train on.
  • Collaborate with researchers and engineers to make sure data pipelines keep pace with the needs of cutting-edge language models.

Requirements

  • Strong software engineering skills.
  • Experience designing and building large-scale data pipelines for machine learning, ideally for LLM post-training.
  • Track record of running distributed data processing and model inference at scale.
  • Good understanding of post-training methods (e.g., SFT, RLHF, DPO) and how data shapes model behaviour.
  • Excellent communication skills.

Benefits

  • Weekly lunch stipend of $75/£75 or equivalent
  • 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 including 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
  • Daily lunch program, plenty of snacks, and regular community and social events for those in the office
  • Co-working benefit

Workplace

  • Remote-friendly with offices in Toronto, London, New York City, San Francisco, Montreal, Paris, Berlin and Seoul.
  • Co-working benefit provided for those not near an office.
  • $500 home office stipend to set up workspace properly.

Skills

  • SFT
  • RL
  • LLMs
  • RLHF
  • DPO

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Member of Technical Staff - Post-training (Data Infrastructure)

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