The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence

Research Engineer, Asta

Seattle, WA

Work authorization required$119k-$178kDetected 4 days ago

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About the role

Persons in these roles are expected to work from our offices in Seattle.
If you have questions about on-site work arrangements for this role, please ask your recruiter.
Who You Are: Are you passionate about AI and its potential to help accelerate science?

We develop foundational AI research and innovation to deliver real-world impact through large-scale open models, data, robotics, conservation, and beyond.
We value diversity - We seek to hire, support, and promote people from all genders, ethnicities, and all levels of experience regardless of age.

Team members will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by any person authorized to give instructions or assignments.

Advanced degree in CS/EE/Data Science/Applied Mathematics/Statistics/ML/NLP or related fields and/or relevant and equivalent engineering experience.
Contributions to open-source ML or research libraries (e.g., spaCy, AllenNLP, transformers, langchain).
Experience successfully operating at scale in a production setting.
Experience in HPC settings.
Curiosity about AI research.
Physical Demands and Work Environment:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by a team member to successfully perform the essential functions of this position.
Must be able to remain in a stationary position for long periods of time.

Automated and AI-assisted scientific discovery.
Agentic planning, reasoning, learning, and evaluation.
Data-driven discovery.
Literature-driven ideation and discovery.
Creating AI tools to facilitate scientific discovery in domains such as biology, cancer research, neuroscience, social science, etc.
Bridging the gap between cutting-edge research and a widely adopted product.
Bringing software engineering best practices to a research environment.
Supporting and collaborating with an open-source community.

Team members will be able to receive annual bonuses and can participate in the long-term incentive plan.

Team members and their families are covered by medical, dental, vision, and an employee assistance program.
Team members are able to enroll in our health savings account plan, our healthcare reimbursement arrangement plan, and our health care and dependent care flexible spending account plans.
Team members will receive $125 per month to assist with commuting or internet expenses and will also receive $200 per month for fitness and wellbeing expenses.
Team members will also receive up to ten sick days per year, up to seven personal days per year, up to 20 vacation days per year and twelve paid holidays throughout the calendar year.
Our base salary range is $118,800 - $178,200, and in addition we have generous bonus plans to provide a competitive compensation package.
While we value powerful research results which drive our mission forward, we also value dinner with family, weekend time, and vacation time.

The Asta Team (Semantic Scholar and Aristo, based in Seattle) at the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) is an interdisciplinary research and engineering team focused on AI, ML, NLP, and HCI to support our mission of accelerating science with intelligent and interactive research assistants. All of our scientific artifacts (data, model, software, papers) are open-sourced ( https://github.com/allenai ) and maintained. We regularly publish and present at high-profile journal/conferences in ML, NLP, HCI, and Accessibility.
See links below for examples of our work.
https://allenai.org/asta
https://allenai.org/blog/autodiscovery
https://allenai.org/papers
The Asta Team (Semantic Scholar and Aristo, based in Seattle) at the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) is an interdisciplinary research and engineering team focused on AI, ML, NLP, and HCI to support our mission of accelerating science with intelligent and interactive research assistants.
All of our scientific artifacts (data, model, software, papers) are open-sourced ( https://github.com/allenai ) and maintained.
We regularly publish and present at high-profile journal/conferences in ML, NLP, HCI, and Accessibility.
Your Next Challenge:
The essential functions include, but are not limited to, the following:
Building infrastructure to facilitate the next generation of LLM and agentic research.
Designing, building, and training machine learning or language models for agentic workflows.

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