Senior Research Scientist, Open Ecosystem

The role

The Senior Research Scientist will train fully open foundation models to accelerate scientific discovery. This role involves providing scientific leadership, conducting research, and leading small teams.

What you will do

• Provide scientific leadership
• Define and conduct ground-breaking research
• Lead small teams
• Oversee and implement software systems supporting research
• Author and present scientific papers and presentations
• Develop collaborative and strategic relationships with academic, industrial, government, and standards organizations

Required qualifications

• PhD level in artificial intelligence, machine learning, or related domains
• Significant experience building and training modern foundation models
• Experience developing training pipelines
• Experience curating high-quality training data
• Ability to remain in a stationary position for long periods of time
• Ability to communicate information and ideas so others will understand
• Ability to exchange accurate information
• Ability to observe details at close range
• Ability to work under deadlines

Nice to have

• Extensive work experience and publishing demonstrating application of research
• Expertise in agentic training
• Passion for applying AI to accelerate scientific discovery
• Experience with multimodal data

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 for 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
• Annual bonuses and participation in the long-term incentive plan

Before you apply

• Employer participates in E-Verify to confirm authorization to work in the U.S.

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.