Thealleninstitute
Senior Research Engineer, Olmo + Molmo
Seattle, WA. Posted 5 months ago
The role
You will train flagship open models like Olmo and Molmo. You will build infrastructure for LLM, multimodal, and agentic research.
What you will do
- Building and optimizing infrastructure for LLM, multimodal, and agentic research
- Designing, training, and evaluating multimodal models and agentic workflows
- Scoping and leading research projects
- Bringing software engineering practices to a research environment
- Contributing to the open-source community through model releases, datasets, public APIs, and technical reports
Required qualifications
- 8 years of industry experience
- 4+ years of ML infrastructure experience
- Experience with end-to-end model development
- Familiarity with modern model architectures including LLMs and vision-language models
- Agentic systems knowledge
- Strong software engineering fundamentals
- Proficiency in Python and a major ML framework (PyTorch, JAX, or TensorFlow)
- Familiarity with cloud and containerization (e.g., GCP, AWS, Docker)
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
- BS or MSc in Computer Science, Statistics, Engineering, Applied Mathematics, or a related quantitative field
- Minimum of 2 years of software development experience
- Must be able to remain in a stationary position for long periods of time
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, and an employee assistance program
- Health savings account plan
- Healthcare reimbursement arrangement plan
- Health care and dependent care flexible spending account plans
- 401k plan
- $125 per month to assist with commuting or internet expenses
- $200 per month for fitness and wellbeing expenses
- Up to ten sick days per year
- Up to seven personal days per year
- Up to 20 vacation days per year
- Twelve paid holidays throughout the calendar year
- Annual bonuses and participation in the long-term incentive plan
About the company
Ai2 is a Seattle based non-profit AI research institute founded in 2014 by the late Paul Allen. Its mission is building breakthrough AI to solve the world’s biggest problems.