About the company
Cohere is the leading security-first enterprise AI company. We build cutting-edge foundation AI models and end-to-end products that are designed to solve real-world business problems.
We are a global technology company headquartered in Toronto with key offices in London, New York City, San Francisco, Montreal, Paris, Berlin and Seoul.
Why this role?
This role will focus on evaluating coding tasks, requiring you to review and debug code, navigate repository architecture, and analyze model trajectories. Your work will contribute to our model development efforts and the logic our models apply when completing task requests.
Please note: This is a part-time independent contractor position available within Canada. We seek candidates who are able to commit to 16 hours per week minimum at a 40 CAD/hour contract rate. This role is BYOD 💻 - Bring Your Own Device (laptop). Remote work within Canada. 12 month contract.
Responsibilities
- Evaluate the model's ability to respond to coding requests, workflows, and code base-related questions using available tools.
- Assess agent trajectories and model capabilities for code generation and debugging requests.
- Prompt models to complete complex coding tasks and review the accuracy of generated responses.
- Label, proofread, and improve machine-written and human-written software engineering-related outputs.
- Report quality and performance trends related to model/agent behaviour and project assignments.
Requirements
- Subject matter expertise in software engineering - you have both studied in this field and have 3-5 years of relevant industry experience.
- Proficient knowledge and understanding of Python and the following programming languages: Java, JavaScript, Go, and SQL (any dialect).
- Prior experience designing, building, and deploying APIs.
- Prior experience working with code agents (OpenCode, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor) or evaluating agent trajectories is a big plus.
Conditions
- Part-time independent contractor position.
- 16 hours per week minimum.
- 40 CAD/hour contract rate.
- BYOD - Bring Your Own Device (laptop).
- Remote work within Canada.
- 12 month contract.
- As an independent contractor, you maintain control over how you complete your work and may work with multiple clients simultaneously.
- Independent contractors are not eligible for health benefits or other benefits provided to employees.
- Compensation for services is provided to contractors by self-invoicing for services provided pursuant to the terms of our agreement with the contractor.
- Continuous work is not guaranteed; engagements may be temporary, periodic, or intermittent based on organizational needs.
- This role involves working with human-generated and model-generated tasks that may involve exposure to not safe for work (NSFW) text content.