Ai2 · 2 months ago
Young Investigator, FlexOlmo
Berkeley, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$160K/yr - $160K/yrThe Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) is seeking a talented and motivated Postdoctoral Young Investigator to join the FlexOlmo team, focusing on large language models. The role involves leading high-impact research projects, mentoring junior researchers, and contributing to cutting-edge developments in natural language processing.
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Responsibilities
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
50% work on leading and collaborating on an Ai2 project as an independent contributor (IC)
50% work on mentoring junior researchers (PhD students/interns, predoctoral students/interns) as well as opportunities to receive mentorship in academic activities such as grant writing and teaching, if desired
Qualification
Required
Are within one year of completing their PhD, or already have a PhD, in Computer Science or similar field with research experience in machine learning, natural language processing, language and vision, or related areas
Outstanding individual contributor (IC) skills, especially with deep learning frameworks (e.g. PyTorch)
An outstanding publication record at AI-related venues, such as NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, COLM, ACL, EMNLP. We will specifically evaluate the quality of publications in terms of rigor and impact, not the quantity
Extensive research experience in areas such as large language models, training dynamics, scaling laws, and data curation
Located [or willing to relocate] in Berkeley, CA
Preferred
Experience with mixture-of-experts, long-context language models, and retrieval is preferred but not required
Benefits
Team members and their families are covered by medical, dental, vision, basic life insurance, basic accidental death and dismemberment insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, and an employee assistance program.
Team members are able to enroll in our voluntary life insurance program, our voluntary accidental death and dismemberment program, our health savings account plan, our healthcare reimbursement arrangement plan, and our health care and dependent care flexible spending account plans.
Team members are able to enroll in our company’s 401k plan.
Team members will receive $125 per month to assist with commuting or internet expenses and will also receive $200 per month for fitness and wellbeing expenses.
Team members will also receive up to ten sick days per year, up to seven personal days per year, up to 20 vacation days per year and twelve paid holidays throughout the calendar year.
Team members will be able to receive annual bonuses.
Company
Ai2
We are a Seattle-based non-profit AI research institute founded in 2014 by the late Paul Allen.
Founded in 2014
201-500 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2024 (8)
2023 (13)
2022 (8)
2021 (7)
2020 (1)
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$152MKey Investors
NVIDIA
2025-08-14Grant· $152M
Leadership Team
Chris Emura
Executive Director, Head of Applied Science & Technology
David Albright
Head of Design and Communications
Recent News
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