Research Engineer Asta
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 build infrastructure and AI tools for scientific discovery, design and train agentic machine-learning models, and turn research into broadly used products. You will apply engineering practices, collaborate with an open-source community, and release software, models, APIs, datasets, and technical reports.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant field or equivalent experience
- Expertise building machine-learning infrastructure
- 2+ years building agentic infrastructure for tools, skills, and artifacts
- 2+ years building infrastructure for data processing, model training, evaluation, inference, and deployment
- Knowledge of deep learning, natural language processing, and reinforcement learning
- Strong software engineering and debugging skills
- Experience with Python and PyTorch, Jax, or TensorFlow
- Experience with agentic frameworks such as MCP
- Familiarity with cloud computing and containerization
Responsibilities
- Build infrastructure for LLM and agentic research
- Create AI tools for scientific discovery
- Design, build, and train machine-learning and language models for agentic workflows
- Bridge research and widely adopted products
- Apply software engineering best practices in research environments
- Support and collaborate with the open-source community
- Release open-source software, models, APIs, research datasets, and technical reports
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
- Annual bonuses
- Long-term incentive plan