Research Internship, AI for Neuroscience
Seattle-based nonprofit AI research institute developing openly released models, datasets, tools, and AI applications for science, the environment, and robotics.
Funding history
About Allen Institute for AI (Ai2)
Ai2 is a nonprofit AI research institute founded by Paul Allen in 2014. It develops openly documented language and multimodal models, training data and code, plus applied AI systems for scientific discovery, planetary intelligence, and conservation.
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About the Role
You will join a 12-week research internship working on a neuroscience project, using and advancing Asta tools to speed up neuroscience research. You will work with primary experimental data such as electrophysiology, single-cell, and spatial transcriptomic measurements of human brain tissue, build agentic workflows, and evaluate AI-generated hypotheses and causal claims against the underlying biology. You will collaborate with a dedicated mentor and aim to publish your research.
Requirements
- Currently enrolled in a PhD program in neuroscience, biology, or a related life science, or in a computational discipline with biological research experience
- Demonstrated independent experience performing and integrating biological research and computational analysis
- Familiarity with Python, using AI agents for scientific data analysis, and constructing reproducible analysis pipelines
- Familiarity with analysis of primary experimental data, including assessing data quality and its limitations
Responsibilities
- Build and advance agentic AI workflows for neuroscience research
- Integrate sequencing or electrophysiology datasets with AI workflows
- Evaluate AI-generated hypotheses, causal claims, and analyses against experimental data and domain expertise
- Explore agentic planning, reasoning, learning, and evaluation
- Develop AI workflows incorporating scientific literature and automated hypothesis generation and testing
- Conduct high-impact research and author scientific papers
- Collaborate with an Ai2 mentor, scientists, and engineers
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, and employee assistance program for team members and families
- Health savings account, healthcare reimbursement arrangement, and health care and dependent care flexible spending accounts
- $125 per month for commuting or internet expenses
- $200 per month for fitness and wellbeing expenses
- Paid sick days and paid recognized holidays
- Generous paid vacation and family leave