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# Senior Applied Scientist at Coveo

- **Company:** Coveo
- **Location:** Montreal Province of Quebec, Canada
- **Posted:** 2026-10-27
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-05
- **Apply:** https://www.coveo.com/en/company/careers/open-positions?gh_jid=8877143002

## Job description

Shape the future of enterprise AI technology

Do you want to turn cutting-edge natural language processing into products impacting millions of users? As a Senior Applied Scientist in the Product Engineering group, you will help build the language technologies at the core of our AI products.

You’ll be contributing directly to the design, evaluation, and implementation of advanced AI solutions at the intersection of Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), information retrieval, semantic search, question answering, and agentic systems, always with real-world constraints in mind.

As one of our Senior Applied Scientists (NLP), you will:

- Design, develop, and optimize modern language-based AI solutions, from data and modeling choices to evaluation strategies and production constraints and guardrails.
- Apply and serve transformer-based language models at scale, delivering reliable, real-time experiences to enterprise users.
- Collaborate closely with machine learning developers and the machine learning platform team to accelerate research and innovation cycles.
- Contribute to research and development processes that foster efficiency, rigor, and a culture of applied science excellence.
- Mentor junior applied scientists, supporting their growth and helping raise the overall level of expertise within the group.
- Promote promising research and best practices in our applied science community.
- Share our innovations externally through technical blog posts, presentations, or other thought leadership content.

Here is what will qualify you for the role:

- At least 4 years of industry experience applying NLP to production systems.
- Demonstrated skill in evaluating and improving LLM-based systems: building test sets, defining offline and online metrics, using LLM-as-judge methods with awareness of their limits, and catching regressions in non-deterministic systems.
- Strong Python skills and fluency with typical tools (HuggingFace, Pandas/Polars, MLFlow), with the habit of writing tested, maintainable code that runs in production.
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure environments for Machine Learning such as AWS, Azure or GCP.
- Experience working with AI coding assistants in your own development workflow, and a point of view on where they help and where they don’t.
- Proven ability to collaborate effectively with other functions: You can clearly explain scientific risks and technical tradeoffs to Product Managers, Designers, and Software Developers.

What will make you stand out:

- Experience building agentic systems: tool use, multi-step planning, orchestration, guardrails, and especially how you evaluated them and handled failure modes.
- Familiarity with traditional lexical and linguistics-based approaches, including classical Information Retrieval and Search
- Experience with the safety and trust side of enterprise AI, such as data governance and legal compliance
- International work experience and a demonstrated ability to collaborate across cultures and perspectives.

Do you think you can bring this role to life?

Join the Coveolife!

We encourage all qualified candidates to apply regardless of, for example, age, gender, disability, gaps in CV, national or ethnic background.

This job description was written by humans, assisted by AI. We may leverage technology in our hiring process to help us see the person behind the resume.

Coveo is committed to providing accessible employment practices. If you require accommodation due to a disability at any point during the recruitment process, please contact HR@Coveo.com to discuss your needs.

## About Coveo

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Coveo provides an AI-powered relevance platform that delivers AI search, recommendations, and generative experiences to personalize enterprise customer and employee interactions.
- **Entity Type**: Public (TSX: CVO.TO)
- **Headquarters**: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- **Founded**: 2005
- **Founders**: Laurent Simoneau, Richard Tessier, and Marc Sanfaçon

## Core Business
- **Primary Industries**: Enterprise software – AI search, personalization, digital experiences (ecommerce, customer service, workplace, website)
- **Target Customers**: B2B – large enterprises, global brands, organizations with large content/ product catalogs
- **Mission**: “Help enterprises become business-to-person and thrive in the experience economy” by maximizing business outcomes through AI search and generative experiences [coveo.com](https://www.coveo.com/en/company/about-us)

## Products & Services
- **Coveo AI‑Relevance™ Platform** (SaaS): Indexes and unifies enterprise data across systems (CRM, help desk, intranet, commerce) to deliver hyper‑personalized search, recommendations, and generative AI answers. Includes connectors for common enterprise tools, an MCP server for AI agents, and analytics to measure business impact. [coveo.com](https://www.coveo.com/en)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: ~$798.6M USD (as of mid‑2025) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/coveo)
- **Annual Revenue**: $133.3M USD (LTM) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/coveo)
- **Total Funding (pre‑IPO)**: ~$572.9M USD, including rounds led by OMERS Growth Equity, Evergreen Coast Capital, BDC Venture Capital, and a recent $3.3M post‑IPO grant from SCALE AI [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/coveo)
- **Notable Investors**: OMERS Growth Equity, Evergreen Coast Capital, BDC Venture Capital, SCALE AI, Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada
- **Growth Signals**:
  - 685 employees (+1.2% YoY) across 12 countries; monthly headcount trend +2.1% [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/coveo)
  - 100 active job postings; quarterly job post growth +38.9% [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/coveo)
  - Earned ISO Generative AI Competency (2025) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/coveo)
  - Continues to expand partnerships and integrations (e.g., MCP Server for AI agents) [coveo.com](https://www.coveo.com/en)

## Competitive Advantages
- **AI‑Relevance focus**: Differentiates between generic search and contextual, intent‑driven personalization at enterprise scale – “moving from persona to person” [ir.coveo.com](https://ir.coveo.com/en/company-information)
- **Composable architecture**: Plugs into existing tech stacks without migration, indexing content securely across silos (CRM, knowledge bases, commerce platforms, etc.) [coveo.com](https://www.coveo.com/en)
- **Proven enterprise traction**: Serves millions of users with billions of interactions for the world’s most innovative brands, providing a “trusted AI‑experience advantage” [coveo.com](https://www.coveo.com/en/company/about-us)

## Strategic Focus
- Accelerating generative AI and AI agent capabilities (Coveo MCP Server, GenAI experiences) [coveo.com](https://www.coveo.com/en)
- Expanding international presence (offices in US, UK, Netherlands, Australia, France, Germany, etc.) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/coveo)
- Deepening integrations and certifications (ISO, SCALE AI partnership) to build trust and compliance [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/coveo)
- Growing revenue through upsells to existing enterprise customers and capturing new segments in ecommerce, service, and workplace

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & Ratings**: Employer rating of 4.0/5 (346 reviews), with work‑life balance 4.0, culture 3.9, compensation 3.6 [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/coveo)
- **Work Model**: Hybrid / remote‑friendly (operates across 12 countries; Montreal HQ; roles in Canada, US, UK, Netherlands, Australia, etc.)
- **Engineering‑driven**: Technical roles account for 27% of workforce; strong engineering leadership (e.g., Director of Platform Engineering) and active research (4% headcount in Research) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/coveo)
- **Career Growth**: 100 open positions, quarterly job post growth +38.9%, and a culture that often creates roles for top talent (submit your profile) [coveo.com](https://www.coveo.com/en/company/careers/open-positions)
- **Perks**: Montreal‑based office in a modern downtown location; emphasis on AI innovation and professional development

## Sources
1. [coveo.com - About Us](https://www.coveo.com/en/company/about-us)
2. [coveo.com - AI Relevance Platform](https://www.coveo.com/en)
3. [ir.coveo.com - Company Information](https://ir.coveo.com/en/company-information)
4. [linkedin.com - Coveo Profile](https://www.linkedin.com/company/coveo)

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