Research Scholar - 8 Months, Paid Apprenticeship for Emerging Research Talent Worldwide

The Cohere Labs Scholars Program is an 8-month, full-time research apprenticeship. The Scholars Program runs from January 12 - August 29, 2026. This program pairs aspiring machine learning researchers with an outstanding engineering team to collaborate on innovative machine learning research projects. The majority of our scholar projects this year focus on AI problems at scale, including efficiency, multilingual, safety, and more. Scholars will have the support of an experienced research team and access to cutting-edge AI technology as they contribute to projects at the forefront of machine learning research.

We encourage applications from a wide range of backgrounds, regardless of previous academic experience. We will accept scholars who have previously published as we want to provide opportunities for aspiring researchers who face great obstacles in entering the field of machine learning.

As a research scholar you will:

• Collaborate with the Cohere engineering team on machine learning and natural language processing research projects, with the goal of releasing published papers or open source code.
• Contribute to the advancement of meaningful scholarship in the machine learning and natural language processing space
• Throw yourself into the world of frontier AI problems. Push yourself and your research skills to new levels.

You may be a good fit:

• You have a strong engineering background, as demonstrated by regular contributions to open source projects, past work experience, or a portfolio
• You are passionate about open-ended problems
• Strong communication and problem-solving skills
• You have grit and are comfortable pushing through iteration and failure.