Member of Technical Staff on Cohere's Multilingual team, pushing frontier LLM performance across languages

Cohere is hiring a Member of Technical Staff for its Multilingual modeling team to design and lead scalable solutions that improve multilingual LLM performance and publish research at top-tier venues. This interview tests deep NLP/ML research fundamentals, large-scale data pipeline experience, and the ability to work independently while mentoring others.

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What this interview tests

Multilingual LLM performance: data, training, and evaluation tradeoffs
Large-scale data processing and ML pipeline design
Python and research software engineering best practices
Research communication: publishing and bridging technical/research audiences
Independent, self-directed research execution
Mentoring and shaping best practices for multilingual AI/NLP

Common question themes

Diagnose and improve a multilingual model's weak performance on specific languages

Design a scalable data/training pipeline for multilingual coverage

Tokenization and evaluation challenges across diverse scripts/languages

Walk through a past research project from idea to publication

How you'd mentor a junior researcher on a multilingual NLP problem

Tradeoffs in cross-lingual transfer vs. per-language specialization

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