Senior Member of Technical Staff, Synthetic Data

Job summary

Responsibilities

As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in synthetic data, you will play a pivotal role in developing the synthetic data pipeline that is crucial to Cohere’s advanced language models.

• Design and build scalable inference pipelines that run on large GPU clusters.
• Conduct data ablations to assess data quality and experiment with data mixtures to enhance model performance.
• Research and implement innovative synthetic 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.

What they're looking for

• Strong software engineering skills, with proficiency in Python and experience building data pipelines.
• Familiarity with data processing frameworks such as Apache Spark, Apache Beam, Pandas, or similar tools.
• Experience working with LLMs through work projects, open-source contributions or personal experimentation.
• Familiarity with LLM inference frameworks such as vLLM and TensorRT.
• Experience working with large-scale datasets, including web data, code data, and multilingual corpora.

Tech stack

• Python
• Spark
• Pandas
• vLLM