Research Internship Open Ecosystem
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
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About the Role
You will define and lead a high-impact AI research project, train and release foundation models, and build open-source software for the research community. You will collaborate with researchers, work with mentors, and author scientific papers for conference or journal publication.
Requirements
- Pursue a doctoral degree in Computer Science or a similar field with research experience in machine learning, natural language processing, language and vision, or related areas
- Demonstrate strong software engineering skills, especially with deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch
Responsibilities
- Define and lead a high-impact research project
- Train and release leading models
- Collaborate with team members
- Build open-source software for the research community
- Author scientific papers for publication
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, and employee assistance program coverage for team members and their families
- 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-day accrual in line with Seattle sick-time requirements
- Paid recognized holidays when normally scheduled to work
- Paid vacation, sick leave, and family leave