Seattle, WA
Nonprofit AI research institute developing open foundation models and robotics
Ai2 is a Seattle-based nonprofit conducting high-impact AI research in open language models like OLMo, multimodal systems, robotics, and AI for science and environment. They release models, data, code, and tools openly to advance scientific discovery and solve global challenges. Their work emphasizes transparency, reproducibility, and collaboration with the research community.
Own end-to-end multi-state US payroll and international EOR payroll while maintaining tax compliance, reconciliations, reporting, and integrations. The role also leads automation and AI-assisted payroll analytics, requiring 4+ years of progressive payroll experience and advanced Excel skills.
Postdoctoral Young Investigator role developing open multimodal language models (CellOLMo) that integrate single-cell transcriptomics with biological text and knowledge to study Alzheimer's disease and neurodegeneration. Requires PhD in ML, computational biology or related quantitative field plus hands-on transformer model experience.
Temporary Recruiting Coordinator supporting high-volume hiring at Ai2 by coordinating interviews, managing candidate communications and experiences, maintaining ATS records in Greenhouse, and assisting with recruiting admin and events. Requires 1-3 years coordination experience, strong organization, and Greenhouse familiarity.
Senior full-stack engineer building scalable AI-powered platforms for environmental conservation, maritime awareness (Skylight), and Earth observation (OlmoEarth). Requires 5+ years shipping production ML-integrated systems end-to-end with strong ownership of web, data, and distributed infrastructure.
Temporary 9-month Senior Accountant on the Finance team at the Allen Institute for AI. Own month-end close, GL reconciliations, grant accounting, compliance reporting, and process improvements in a nonprofit environment. Requires bachelor's in Accounting/Finance + 4+ years experience and GAAP knowledge.
Predoctoral Young Investigator role on the AllenNLP team at Ai2, collaborating on open language models and NLP research. Ideal for recent bachelor's/master's graduates preparing for PhD programs, involving mentorship, cutting-edge research, and co-authoring papers.
Lead day-to-day operations and reliability of AI research HPC platform, including on-prem dense GPU clusters, hybrid-cloud orchestration (Beaker), storage, and resource management. Hands-on manager of systems/SRE/dev team; requires deep Linux/distributed systems expertise and 12+ years infrastructure/HPC experience.
Grants Coordinator supporting the full lifecycle of federal and philanthropic awards at Ai2. Manage compliance, reporting, subawards, document control, and systems for AI research grants, with progression to primary operational ownership.
Lead partnership and adoption strategy for Skylight's AI-driven ocean protection platform. Manage a remote team, build relationships with governments and NGOs, drive product adoption and impact measurement for marine conservation. 8+ years partnerships experience and 5+ years people management required.
Serve as Senior HR Business Partner to organizational leaders at AI2, designing and executing talent management, workforce planning, culture, and employee experience programs. Requires 8+ years progressive HR experience, strong data-driven and change management skills, and breadth across HR functions.
Technical Partner Operations Specialist supporting partner use-case evaluations, enablement, communications, and product feedback for an Earth observation AI platform. Requires 5+ years experience and geospatial/remote sensing familiarity.
Senior engineer building and operating large-scale HPC infrastructure for AI model training. Owns job scheduling, automation, and performance optimization across GPU clusters.
Research Engineer training and scaling flagship open multimodal and agentic models (Olmo, Molmo). Owns end-to-end ML infrastructure, model development, and open-source releases.
Lead product design for complex AI products at Ai2, owning end-to-end UX from research through polished interfaces. Drive design systems and strategic vision for developer and AI tools.
Research Engineer builds ML infrastructure and agentic systems to accelerate scientific discovery in biology, neuroscience, and more. Requires 2+ years experience with Python, PyTorch/JAX/TF, cloud resources, and deep learning for LLM/agent research at Ai2.
Builds and maintains automated IT infrastructure pipelines using Python, Terraform, and cloud providers to support company operations. Requires 5+ years experience with focus on automation, strong coding, and collaboration skills.
Builds foundational platform architecture for AI research agents, including SDKs, APIs, execution frameworks, and benchmarking infrastructure to enable researchers to develop intelligent systems over scholarly literature. Requires strong Python skills, 8+ years experience, cloud infrastructure, and AI integration expertise.
Builds fullstack AI-powered applications for scientific discovery using React for UIs and Python for backends. Collaborates with designers, PMs, and researchers; requires 8+ years experience, strong Python/React skills, and cloud/AI integration expertise.
Hands-on robotics engineer building control stacks, sim-to-real pipelines, and infrastructure for robot learning projects. Collaborates with researchers to deploy algorithms on real hardware using Python and modern robotics ecosystems. Requires Master's/PhD + 3 years or Bachelor's + 3+ years experience.
Conducts research on foundation models for robotics, focusing on manipulation, sim-to-real transfer, RL, and skill learning using simulations and real robots. Requires PhD-level expertise in robotics/AI, strong publications, and software skills for open-source breakthroughs.
Postdoctoral researcher on robotics team developing foundation models, manipulation skills, and sim-to-real transfer for competent robots. Requires recent PhD and publications in top robotics/ML venues; 50/50 split on collaborative and independent research.
Early-career researcher on robotics team investigating foundation models for robot manipulation, skill learning, and sim-to-real transfer in scalable simulations. Prepares candidates for PhD programs through mentorship, publications, and open-source contributions. Requires bachelor’s/master’s in relevant field.
Leads AI infrastructure including on-prem GPU clusters, hybrid cloud orchestration, storage, and resource allocation to support frontier AI research. Requires 12+ years experience with HPC leadership, GPU systems, Kubernetes, and distributed storage.
Leads foundational research on agentic AI systems for scientific reasoning, including literature synthesis, hypothesis formation, coding, experiments, and data analysis. Requires PhD in ML/NLP/reasoning with expertise in language models or reinforcement learning.
Provides legal counsel on AI research development, including data governance, licensing, and compliance for open AI technologies. Requires JD, WA bar license, and 6+ years in technology transactions with privacy law experience.
Designs and implements infrastructure for training next-generation LLM architectures focused on Mixture-of-Experts and long-context models. Requires 4+ years building ML pipelines with PyTorch/JAX/TF, deep learning expertise, and strong software engineering skills.
Postdoctoral researcher leading high-impact AI projects on Mixture-of-Experts and long-context language models, training/releasing models, building open-source tools, publishing papers, and mentoring juniors. Requires recent PhD in CS/ML with strong publication record and PyTorch expertise.