Research Internship, Open Ecosystem

The role

Research Interns will work on fully open foundation models like Olmo and Molmo. You will define and lead research projects, train models, and build open-source software.

What you will do

• Define and lead a high-impact research project.
• Train and release leading models.
• Collaborate with and learn from team members across Ai2.
• Build open-source software for the research community.
• Author scientific papers for publication in a high-profile conference or journal.

Required qualifications

• Pursuing a doctoral degree in Computer Science or similar field with research experience in machine learning, natural language processing, language and vision, or related areas.
• Strong software engineering skills, especially with deep learning frameworks (e.g. PyTorch).
• Must be able to remain in a stationary position for long periods of time.
• The ability to communicate information and ideas so others will understand.
• The ability to observe details at close range.
• Can work under deadlines.

Nice to have

• A strong publication record at AI-related venues, such as NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, COLM, ACL, EMNLP.
• Experience in related areas of foundation model research like training dynamics, scaling laws, efficiency, data curation, post-training methods (e.g., SFT, DPO, RL), agentic training and infrastructur
• Contributions to open-source research libraries (e.g., PyTorch, Huggingface Transformers, olmo-core, AllenNLP).

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.
• $125 per month to assist with commuting or internet expenses.
• $200 per month for fitness and wellbeing expenses.
• Accrue sick days per year in line with Seattle sick time requirements.
• Paid for holidays if usually scheduled to work.

Before you apply

• Apply by January 8, 2027 at 11:00pm Pacific Time to be considered for Spring/Summer 2027 internships.
• Visa sponsorship is available.

About the company

Ai2 is a Seattle based non-profit AI research institute founded in 2014 by the late Paul Allen. Their mission is building breakthrough AI to solve the world’s biggest problems.