Predoctoral Young Investigator Open Ecosystem
Seattle-based nonprofit AI research institute developing fully open models, datasets, tools, and applied AI systems for scientific discovery, the planet, and robotics.
Funding history
About Allen Institute for AI (Ai2)
Ai2 builds breakthrough AI around an open-development approach, publishing model weights, training code, training data, recipes, evaluations, and documentation. Its current work includes the Olmo language-model family, Molmo multimodal models, Tülu post-training models, the Asta scientific-agent ecosystem, and AI-for-the-planet products.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will collaborate directly with researchers on language-model and natural-language-processing research. You will use research infrastructure and tools, contribute to publications, gain industry research experience, and prepare for graduate-level research or collaborative thesis work.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or master's degree in a relevant field
- Desire to enter a PhD program within 1–3 years
Responsibilities
- Collaborate directly with researchers on research projects
- Co-author research papers for top venues
- Use data, engineering infrastructure, and research tools
- Conduct research in language-model-based AI and natural language processing
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, and employee assistance coverage for team members and families
- Health savings account, healthcare reimbursement arrangement, and flexible spending accounts
- 401k plan
- $125 monthly commuting or internet expense support
- $200 monthly fitness and wellbeing expense support
- Up to 10 sick days, 7 personal days, 20 vacation days, and 12 paid holidays per year
- School-visit travel without using accrued vacation or personal time