Content Policy Specialist (1-year contract; 20 hrs/week)

Who are we?

Our mission is to scale intelligence to serve humanity. We’re training and deploying frontier models for developers and enterprises who are building AI systems to power magical experiences like content generation, semantic search, RAG, and agents. We believe that our work is instrumental to the widespread adoption of AI.

We obsess over what we build. Each one of us is responsible for contributing to increasing the capabilities of our models and the value they drive for our customers. We like to work hard and move fast to do what’s best for our customers.

Cohere is a team of researchers, engineers, designers, and more, who are passionate about their craft. Each person is one of the best in the world at what they do. We believe that a diverse range of perspectives is a requirement for building great products.

Join us on our mission and shape the future!

IMPORTANT CONTEXT ON THIS ROLE: In this position, you will be asked to engage with human-generated and model-generated tasks, which will sometimes mean intentional exposure to explicit content. Your work on these explicit tasks will be used to prevent the Large Language Model from generating unintentional or adversarial unsafe outputs. The types of explicit content you may be exposed to may include, but are not limited to, those of a sexual, violent, or psychologically disturbing nature.

Please note: This is a one-year part-time contract position. The expected commitment is 20 hours per week. We’re looking for individuals based in the Eastern Time Zone with the flexibility to collaborate with stakeholders across the EMEA region.

• Draft, review, edit, and maintain safety content policies and guidelines, ensuring they are comprehensive and easily understandable for all team members (including safety modeling team and annotators).

• Utilize documentation to track policy drafting, updates, and emerging needs, keeping a detailed record of the policy lifecycle.

• Maintain and update the policy hub, both internally and externally, making Cohere’s policies accessible and easily navigable.

• Develop multi-modal content policies, including focusing on violence, image-based abuse, and CSEA/CSAM, to address potential risks and challenges of high-harm areas first.

• Review and label some examples of potentially harmful content in order to develop or refine policies and harm definitions.

• You have experience working on LLM content policy.

• You understand the diverse range of potential LLM safety risks, especially those relevant to an enterprise LLM, and can translate them into concrete internal guidelines.

• You have strong research and writing skills and can maintain and organize extensive documentation.

• You are passionate about Safety and have previous experience in Trust & Safety / Content Policy / AI Safety.

• You have experience in content policy and/or AI safety in various geographic regions, including Europe, Middle East, East Asia.

• You enjoy collaborating with researchers, ML practitioners, and product managers.

• You are a self-starter and can work well independently with a distributed team.

If some of the above doesn’t line up perfectly with your experience, we still encourage you to apply! If you want to work really hard on a glorious mission with teammates that want the same thing, Cohere is the place for you.

We value and celebrate diversity and strive to create an inclusive work environment for all. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and are committed to providing equal opportunities. Should you require any accommodations during the recruitment process, please submit an Accommodations Request Form, and we will work together to meet your needs.

Full-Time Employees at Cohere enjoy these Perks:

🤝 An open and inclusive culture and work environment 

🧑‍💻 Work closely with a team on the cutting edge of AI research 

🍽 Weekly lunch stipend, in-office lunches & snacks

🦷 Full health and dental benefits, including a separate budget to take care of your mental health 

🐣 100% Parental Leave top-up for 6 months for employees based in Canada, the US, and the UK

🎨 Personal enrichment benefits towards arts and culture, fitness and well-being, quality time, and workspace improvement

🏙 Remote-flexible, offices in Toronto, New York, San Francisco and London and co-working stipend

✈️ 6 weeks of vacation

Note: This post is co-authored by both Cohere humans and Cohere technology.