The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence
The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) is a Seattle-based nonprofit research institute that advances AI through open models, datasets, and tools, and runs applied projects in NLP, vision, robotics, and conservation. It creates widely used resources such as Semantic Scholar and AllenNLP, and operates the AI2 Incubator to spin out startups. Founded in 2014 by Paul Allen, it partners with academia and industry and publishes open research.
Open Positions at The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence
4 open positions
Senior Software Engineer building a full-stack platform that enables conservation, government, and research organizations to create, evaluate, deploy, and operate AI agents. The role combines platform engineering, developer tooling, user-facing interfaces, and close collaboration with external partners to deliver technology for environmental and climate impact.
Lead the organization’s security program at Ai2, securing cloud infrastructure, ML pipelines, application code, and SaaS systems while building security processes largely from the ground up. This hands-on leadership role combines security assessments, incident response, tooling, compliance, and cross-functional advising.
Senior Research Engineer responsible for training and advancing Ai2’s open large language and multimodal models, including Olmo and Molmo. The role combines deep learning research, large-scale ML infrastructure, agentic systems, and production-quality software engineering.
Build the foundational frameworks, SDKs, APIs, and execution infrastructure powering AI research agents at Ai2. This senior role focuses on making complex distributed agent systems reliable, observable, and easy for researchers to use.