Research Internship AI for Science
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.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will conduct high-impact AI-for-science research, contribute to scientific papers for leading conferences and journals, and collaborate with an Ai2 mentor and other researchers and engineers. Your work may focus on agentic systems, scientific discovery, human-AI collaboration, literature understanding, continual learning, or model post-training.
Requirements
- Be a PhD student in computer science or a related field with research experience
- Focus on one or more active AI research areas
- Have a publication record in AI-related venues
- Demonstrate strong software engineering skills
- Have experience with system building, deep learning frameworks, or agentic frameworks
Responsibilities
- Conduct high-impact research
- Author scientific papers for publication
- Collaborate with an Ai2 mentor and team members
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage for team members and their families
- Employee assistance program
- Health savings account, healthcare reimbursement arrangement, and flexible spending account plans
- $125 per month for commuting or internet expenses
- $200 per month for fitness and wellbeing expenses
- Sick leave in line with Seattle requirements
- Paid recognized holidays when normally scheduled to work