Senior Research Engineer Olmo Molmo
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 build and optimize training, inference, data-curation, and preprocessing infrastructure. You will design, train, and evaluate multimodal models and agentic workflows, lead research projects and experiments, apply strong engineering practices, and support open-source releases of models, datasets, APIs, and technical reports.
Requirements
- Eight years of industry experience with four or more years of machine learning infrastructure experience
- Experience with data preprocessing, model training, evaluation, inference, and deployment
- Experience with end-to-end model development, including dataset construction, training, fine-tuning, evaluation, profiling, and monitoring
- Familiarity with language models, mixture-of-experts models, long-context models, and vision-language models
- Experience training and evaluating models
- Knowledge of agentic systems, tools, memory, and long-running workflows
- Software engineering fundamentals for scalable systems and debugging
- Python proficiency
- Proficiency with PyTorch, JAX, or TensorFlow
- Familiarity with GCP, AWS, and Docker
- Communication and collaboration skills
- Degree or equivalent experience in computer science, statistics, engineering, applied mathematics, or a related quantitative field
- Two years of software development experience
Responsibilities
- Build and optimize infrastructure for language model, multimodal, and agentic research
- Develop training and inference pipelines, dataset curation, and large-scale preprocessing
- Design, train, and evaluate multimodal models and agentic workflows
- Scope and lead research projects and prioritize experiments
- Bridge research work to production-quality products
- Support open-source model releases, datasets, public APIs, and technical reports
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Employee assistance program
- 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 ten sick days, seven personal days, 20 vacation days, and twelve paid holidays annually
- Family leave
- Annual bonuses
- Long-term incentive plan