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Ai2

Nonprofit AI research institute developing open foundation models and robotics

Seattle, WAOnsite201-1000aiBootstrapped
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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.

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PythonAWSGCPDockerKubernetesPyTorchJAXTensorFlowGoTransformersDatadogGoogle Cloudcomputer visionROSSocial MediaTerraformOktaGitHubGitHub ActionsReact
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Technical Partner Operations Specialist

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.

90k – 134kSeattle, WABusiness OperationsOn-site5+ YOECRMQGIS
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Senior Software Engineer, AI Infrastructure

Senior engineer building and operating large-scale HPC infrastructure for AI model training. Owns job scheduling, automation, and performance optimization across GPU clusters.

126k – 189kSeattle, WADevOps / SREOn-site8+ YOEGoSRE
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Senior Research Engineer

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.

147k – 220kSeattle, WAML EngineeringOn-site4+ YOEJAXMoE
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Senior Lead Product Designer

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.

161k – 242kSeattle, WAProduct DesignOn-site12+ YOEFigmaPrototyping
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Software Engineer, AI for the Planet

Build scalable full-stack applications integrating ML models for environmental impact projects like illegal fishing detection and Earth observation platforms. Requires 5+ years experience with strong ownership of production systems and close collaboration with researchers.

126k – 189kSeattle, WAFullstack EngineeringHybrid5+ YOEGCPdata pipelines
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Research Engineer, Asta

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.

119k – 178kSeattle, WAML EngineeringOn-site2+ YOEJAXGCP
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Infrastructure Engineer

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.

100k – 150kSeattle, WADevOps / SREOn-site5+ YOEAWSOkta
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Senior Software Engineer, Platform

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.

126k – 189kSeattle, WADevOps / SREOn-site8+ YOEAWSGCP
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Senior Software Engineer, Data

Builds and maintains scalable data pipelines for Semantic Scholar corpus, improves data quality with ML techniques like entity resolution and classification, and designs APIs for AI research agents. Requires 8+ years experience, strong Python/SQL skills, and ML familiarity.

126k – 189kSeattle, WAData EngineeringOn-site8+ YOES3ML
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Senior Software Engineer, Fullstack

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.

126k – 189kSeattle, WAFullstack EngineeringOn-site8+ YOECSSAWS
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Robotics Engineer

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.

119k – 178kSeattle, WAEmbedded EngineeringOn-site3+ YOEPythonrobotics
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Research Scientist, Robotics

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.

167k – 261kSeattle, WAAI ResearchOn-siteROSPyTorch
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Young Investigator, Robotics

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.

160k – 160kSeattle, WAOtherOn-siteskill learningcomputer vision
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Predoctoral Young Investigator, Robotics

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.

113k – 113kSeattle, WAOtherOn-siteEntry levelroboticsskill learning
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Research Internship, Robotics

Research intern on robotics team conducts AI research in foundation models, robotics skills, open datasets/benchmarks, and real-world robot experiments under mentor guidance. Requires student status in CS/AI-related field with research background in robotics, ML, or computer vision.

94k – 140kSeattle, WAEmbedded EngineeringOn-siteEntry levelROSPython
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Research Engineer, FlexOlmo

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.

129k – 193kSeattle, WAML EngineeringOn-site4+ YOEJAXAWS
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Research Scientist, Agents for Science

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.

167k – 261kSeattle, WAAI ResearchOn-sitePOMDPsOpen Source
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Legal Counsel

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.

175k – 225kSeattle, WALegalHybrid6+ YOEGDPRCCPA
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Young Investigator, FlexOlmo

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.

160k – 160kBerkeley, CAAI ResearchRemotePyTorchRetrieval
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Director of AI Infrastructure

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.

176k – 265kSeattle, WADevOps / SREOn-site12+ YOEGoAWS