# Senior Research Engineer - Safety Tooling and Data at Cohere

- Company: Cohere
- What the company does: Backed by AI Grant.
- Company website: https://cohere.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: New York
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-06-26
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/cohere/2d4d224f-94d4-40ce-88d5-5d340bc0da4e
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/cohere-senior-research-engineer-safety-tooling-and-data/

## About the role

As a Senior Research Engineer in our Safety team, you will play a key role in helping develop safer, more secure, and more reliable models. Your primary focus will be on building tools to enable easy data synthesis, analysis, and management, for complex combinations of real and synthetic data that is used in both model training and evaluation. You will own the cohesive vision of these tooling repositories.

## What they're looking for

- Extremely strong software engineering skills
- Strong statistical skills and experience evaluating scientific experiments related to data collection and model performance
- Proficiency in programming languages such as Python and ML frameworks (e.g., PyTorch) and Big Data Analytics (e.g. BigQuery, SQL)
- Demonstrated ability to own complex technical projects from conception to deployment
- Opinionated approach to technical architecture with ability to make principled decisions
- Understanding of ML data requirements and the intersection of data engineering with modeling workflows

Tags: Modeling