The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence

The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence

Senior Software Engineer, AI Infrastructure

Seattle, WA · Senior

Work authorization required$126k-$189kDetected 5 days ago
Distributed SystemsKubernetesLinuxSite Reliability EngineeringSystems EngineeringRoboticsResearchCommunicationWriting

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: You are an expert systems engineer who occupies the space between high-level software orchestration and low-level system performance.

Responsibilities

  • 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.

Requirements

  • You are an expert systems engineer who occupies the space between high-level software orchestration and low-level system performance.
  • You are motivated by the idea that world-class infrastructure should be a catalyst for public good, not a proprietary secret.
  • You are as comfortable designing a resource allocation algorithm in Go as you are debugging a NCCL timeout.
  • Mission over relevant advanced degree may substitute for equivalent years of technical work experience.
  • Expert-level knowledge of Linux internals, and container runtimes like Docker.

Nice to have

  • Applied experience with workload schedulers (like Kubernetes or Slurm) and high-performance networking (NCCL and InfiniBand).
  • Prior experience training or fine-tuning frontier AI models.
  • Deep systems administration expertise or "Site Reliability Engineering" (SRE) background in an HPC context.
  • Experience contributing to open-source infrastructure or orchestration projects.
  • Familiarity with on-prem storage systems like WEKA and Ceph.
  • 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.

Skills

  • A proven track record of designing, debugging, and optimizing high-scale distributed systems and databases.

Compensation

  • Our base salary range is $126,000 - $189,000, and in addition we have generous bonus plans to provide a competitive compensation package.

Benefits

  • 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.
  • Our base salary range is $126,000 - $189,000, 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.

Company info

  • While much of the AI industry has moved behind closed APIs, proprietary datasets, and "black box" infrastructure, Ai2 remains a lighthouse for Open Science. Founded by the late Paul Allen, we are a non-profit research institute dedicated to building AI for the common good.
  • We don't have a stock price to defend or a walled garden to protect. Instead, we have a mission: to provide the global research community with the transparent, high-performance foundations they need to achieve humanity-enriching breakthroughs.
  • What Makes Us Different:
  • Radical Transparency: We don't just release model weights
  • While much of the AI industry has moved behind closed APIs, proprietary datasets, and "black box" infrastructure, Ai2 remains a lighthouse for Open Science.
  • Founded by the late Paul Allen, we are a non-profit research institute dedicated to building AI for the common good.
  • We don't have a stock price to defend or a walled garden to protect.
  • Instead, we have a mission: to provide the global research community with the transparent, high-performance foundations they need to achieve humanity-enriching breakthroughs.
  • Radical Transparency: We don't just release model weights; we release the data, the training code, and the infrastructure insights. We believe the "how" is just as important as the "what."
  • Linux Expertise: Expert-level knowledge of Linux internals, and container runtimes like Docker.
  • Distributed Systems Expertise: A proven track record of designing, debugging, and optimizing high-scale distributed systems and databases.
  • Communication: Exceptional writing skills and the ability to drive consensus across diverse groups of researchers and engineers.
  • A principled approach to engineering: You care about how systems are built and are excited by the unique constraints and freedoms of a non-profit research environment.

Visa & Work Authorization

  • This employer participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S. If E-Verify cannot confirm that you are authorized to work, this employer i
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