Senior Software Engineer Agent Frameworks
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 design frameworks, SDKs, APIs, and execution surfaces for research agents. You will build sandboxed execution, benchmarking, and evaluation infrastructure; improve reliability and observability; support the full development lifecycle; and collaborate across engineering and research functions.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree and 8+ years of technical experience, or equivalent relevant experience
- Python engineering skills
- Experience building production services and developer-facing tools
- Experience designing SDKs, APIs, or frameworks
- Experience with agentic systems
- Experience with evaluation or benchmarking infrastructure
- Experience with cloud infrastructure, containerization, and deployment automation
- Communication skills
Responsibilities
- Design and build agent frameworks, SDKs, and execution surfaces
- Build infrastructure for sandboxed agent execution
- Design and maintain evaluation and benchmarking frameworks
- Develop developer-facing abstractions and tooling
- Improve system reliability, observability, and cost-efficiency
- Own software development from design through operational support
- Collaborate to ensure maintainability, test coverage, and robust deployment
- Align priorities and drive projects to completion
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 assistance
- $200 monthly fitness and wellbeing expense assistance
- Up to 10 sick days, 7 personal days, 20 vacation days, and 12 paid holidays annually
- Annual bonuses
- Long-term incentive plan