Cohere

Cohere's main structured early-career route is the Cohere Labs Scholars Program, an eight-month, full-time paid position for early-career machine-learning researchers. It is remote-first and open globally, with no relocation required, and it explicitly does not require a record of published papers — the program states it seeks candidates with strong engineering skills and creative thinking, including those with little or no publication experience (Research Scholar listing). Scholars are matched to a research project only after selection, so it works as a paid entry into frontier ML research rather than a fixed-curriculum internship — worth prioritising for someone targeting a research career without a conventional publication track record.

Applications for the Scholars Program open once a year, around August, for a cohort that begins the following January and runs eight months; the 2026 cohort ran from January to August 2026. There is no rolling intake — it is a single annual window. Because the application period sits in late summer, roughly five months ahead of the January start, a candidate has to commit to this timeline well before the program begins, and missing the August window means waiting a full year for the next cohort.

Cohere builds enterprise foundation models rather than a consumer chatbot, and several specifics set it apart for early-career applicants:

• it was founded in 2019 in Toronto by former Google Brain researchers and keeps a Canadian base alongside San Francisco, unusual among frontier labs
• it releases open-weight models: Command A+ shipped under a permissive Apache 2.0 license, aimed at enterprise and public-sector "sovereign" deployment (release)
• its Aya family targets multilingual coverage, with recent open-weight models supporting 70+ languages (Aya release)
• it runs a dedicated research arm, Cohere Labs, with the Scholars Program and a Catalyst grant program as explicit on-ramps for outside researchers

For an early-career researcher, open-weight publishing plus a formal scholars-and-grants pathway means the work is visible outside the company and there is a defined way in that does not hinge on prior industry experience.

Cohere currently has no open internship or graduate roles listed on Jorb AI. This page updates continuously; check back as new postings rotate.

Applications to Cohere go through the official careers site. Each role on this page links directly to the specific application. Cohere does not use third-party submission services.