How to get a job at Cohere

101 of Cohere's 142 open roles are remote, roughly 71 percent. No other lab on this list is close. If relocation is the thing standing between you and working on frontier models, Cohere is the obvious first application rather than the fallback.

Their physical presence is Canadian and British rather than Californian: Toronto (6) and Ottawa alongside London (8). For anyone in the UK or Canada who would rather not emigrate, that combination is rare.

They are an enterprise company that happens to train models

Cohere's largest open team is Revenue, ahead of Modeling. Their product is sold to banks, insurers, governments and other organisations with procurement departments, and the hiring reflects that: 67 of 142 roles sit outside engineering and research titles.

This shapes what a good application looks like. At a research-first lab you are asked to show intellectual range. Here, evidence that you have shipped something a regulated customer actually depended on carries real weight, and enterprise software experience transfers directly in a way it does not everywhere else.

Security and deployment are unusually prominent

Security appears high in their open headcount, more than at labs of comparable size. That follows from selling into regulated industries and offering private and on-premise deployments. If your background is security engineering, compliance or deployment infrastructure, your work is closer to the commercial core here than it would be at a research lab.

What they do not publish

Cohere says considerably less about its interview process than Anthropic or Mistral. No public stage-by-stage breakdown, no stated values framework, no explicit advice to applicants. Treat detailed accounts of their loop as unverified.

In the absence of that, the listings are the best available signal, and they consistently emphasise shipping into production and working with customers over research output.

The practical version

• Apply here first if you cannot or will not relocate.
• Lead with production and customer impact rather than research, because that is what the roles are.
• Enterprise, security and compliance experience is an advantage here, not a detour.
• Toronto, Ottawa and London are real offices, not satellite ones.

Role, team and location counts are read from Cohere's live job board and refresh daily. Cohere publishes little about its hiring process, so this guide makes fewer claims about interviews than others in this series.