Content Policy Specialist

Employment Type: Part-Time (One-year contract) Location Type: Remote Commitment: 20 hours per week Time Zone Preference: Eastern Time Zone (with flexibility for EMEA collaboration)

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.

Responsibilities

As a Content Policy Specialist, you will:

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

You may be a good fit if you have:

• Experience working on LLM content policy.
• Understanding of the diverse range of potential LLM safety risks, especially those relevant to an enterprise LLM, and the ability to translate them into concrete internal guidelines.
• Strong research and writing skills, with the ability to maintain and organize extensive documentation.
• Passion for Safety and previous experience in Trust & Safety / Content Policy / AI Safety.
• Experience in content policy and/or AI safety in various geographic regions, including Europe, Middle East, East Asia.
• Enjoy collaborating with researchers, ML practitioners, and product managers.
• 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.

Company Culture & Values

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.

Application Instructions

• Should you require any accommodations during the recruitment process, please submit an Accommodations Request Form, and we will work together to meet your needs.

Perks (for Full-Time Employees - Note: This is a contract role)

• 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