Cohere Labs Scholars Program

Charting new paths into ML research

Cohere Labs' Scholars Program provides emerging researchers the resources to push the limits of AI.

Status:

Closed

Next deadline:

Applications open annually, typically around August.

Eligibility:

Early-career researcher
Full-time availability
Demonstrated AI/ML curiosity

Benefits:

Tailored mentorship from ML experts
Access to large-scale experimental settings to conduct research
Competitive pay

About the program

The Scholars Program is a remote-first, full-time paid position that begins annually in January and takes place for 8 months. Scholars get matched with mentors based on areas of research and are key contributors to the Cohere Labs team.

Mentorship

Receive tailored mentorship from some of the best ML research and engineering experts in the world.

Tools

Access our large-scale experimental settings to conduct research exploring complex ML problems.

Ownership

Lead a matched project, applying your strengths to explore high-impact research questions.

The program experience

Scholars' papers

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Computemultilingual
Making, not Taking, the Best of N
Computemultilingual
Oct 01, 2025
CodeData Efficiency
Verification Limits Code LLM Training
CodeData Efficiency
Sep 26, 2025
multilingualMultimodal
NeoBabel: A Multilingual Open Tower for Visual Generation
multilingualMultimodal
Jul 09, 2025
Language Modelsmultilingual
When Life Gives You Samples: The Benefits of Scaling up Inference Compute for Multilingual LLMs
Language Modelsmultilingual
Jun 19, 2025
multilingualLanguage Models
One Tokenizer To Rule Them All: Emergent Language Plasticity via Multilingual Tokenizers
multilingualLanguage Models
May 30, 2025
multilingualSafety
Mix Data or Merge Models? Optimizing for Diverse Multi-Task Learning
multilingualSafety
Oct 15, 2024
Mixture of ExpertsScholars
Nexus: Specialization meets Adaptability for Efficiently Training Mixture of Experts
Mixture of ExpertsScholars
Aug 29, 2024
LanguageRobustness
Multilingual Arbitrage: Optimizing Data Pools to Accelerate Multilingual Progress
LanguageRobustness
Aug 28, 2024
Reinforcement LearningGenerative Models
Back to Basics – REINFORCE for Human Feedback in LLMs
Reinforcement LearningGenerative Models
Feb 23, 2024

Where Scholars go next

Frequently asked questions

Applications open each year in August; the Scholars Program begins annually in January.
No. In fact, we are particularly interested in identifying candidates with strong engineering skills and demonstrated creative thinking but limited experience or no experience with published papers. You need not have to have previous research experience to apply.
We will consider the skills, interests, and background of our successful applicants alongside our research projects to make the best possible match between Scholar and project.
Yes, this is a full-time, paid position.
The Scholars Program will operate on a remote-first basis. We want to make this opportunity available to emerging ML researchers around the world. If you are based out of or visiting a city with a Cohere office you are welcome to come work with us in person.
The Scholars Program is structured as a remote-first opportunity, with no requirement to relocate.
The Scholars Program is structured as a rigorous full-time commitment. In an effort to keep up with the pace of advancement of ML research, we look forward to supporting Scholars dive into the research process as they work towards publication within the program period.
Yes–we welcome re-applications for future cohorts. We see this as a positive signal of your continued interest and commitment to the program.