Research Engineer

Seattle, WA

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The Allen Institute for AI

AI2, founded by Paul Allen and led by Ali Farhadi, conducts high-impact research and engineering to tackle key problems in artificial intelligence.

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Research Engineer, PRIOR Team

The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) is a non-profit research institute in Seattle founded by Paul Allen. The core mission of (AI2) is to contribute to humanity through high-impact AI research and engineering. 

AI2’s Perceptual Reasoning and Interaction Research team (PRIOR) seeks to advance computer vision to create AI systems that see, explore, learn, and reason about the world. 

Our latest work includes:

Unified-IO: The first neural model to perform a large and diverse set of AI tasks spanning classical computer vision, image synthesis, vision-and-language, and natural language processing (NLP).

https://unified-io.allenai.org

ProcTHOR: Enabling Embodied AI to scale by orders of magnitude by procedurally generating interactive 3D environments.

https://procthor.allenai.org

Learn more about our work at https://prior.allenai.org

Your Next Challenge:

PRIOR is looking for Research Engineers to work closely with our scientists on a variety of projects in the following research areas:

  • Vision and Language
  • Embodied AI
  • AI for the Common Good
  • And more ...

Your responsibilities may include:

  • Building and evaluating deep learning models 
  • Collecting annotated data using crowdsourcing
  • Writing and submitting research papers to top tier AI conferences
  • Developing computer vision and reinforcement learning packages to assist our research efforts internally as well as share externally
  • And more ...

What You Will Need:

  • Strong software development skills
  • Background in computer vision or machine learning
  • Strong prototyping skills to implement preliminary research ideas
  • Experience with deep learning frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, Tensorflow, etc.)
  • Strong collaboration skills - our environment is small and collaborative, and we'd like you to thrive on working closely with others.

Bonus qualifications:

  • Publications in top-tier computer vision or machine learning conferences
  • Experience with cloud services (e.g., AWS and Azure)
  • Experience building systems at scale
  • Experience building deep learning packages or frameworks
  • Experience with crowdsourced data collection (e.g., Amazon’s Mechanical Turk)

Who We Are:

In addition to AI2’s core mission, we also aim to contribute to humanity through our treatment of each member of the AI2 Team. Some highlights are:

  • We are a learning organization– because everything AI2 does is ground-breaking, we are learning every day. Similarly, through weekly AI2 Academy lectures, a wide variety of world-class AI experts as guest speakers, and our commitment to your personal on-going education, AI2 is place where you will have opportunities to continue learning alongside your coworkers. 
  • We value diversity -We seek to hire, support, and promote people from all genders, ethnicities, and all levels of experience regardless of age. We particularly encourage applications from women, non-binary individuals, people of color, members of the LGBTQA+ community, and people with disabilities of any kind. 
  • We value inclusion -We understand the value that people's individual experiences and perspectives can bring to an organization, and we are building a culture in which all voices are heard, respected and considered.
  • We emphasize a healthy work/life balance – we believe our team members are happiest and most productive when their work/life balance is optimized. While we value powerful research results which drive our mission forward, we also value dinner with family, weekend time, and vacation time. We offer generous paid vacation and sick leave as well as family leave.
  • We are collaborative and transparent – we consider ourselves a team, all moving with a common purpose. We are quick to cheer our successes, and even quicker to share and jointly problem solve our failures.
  • We are in Seattle – and our office is on the water! We have mountains, we have lakes, we have four seasons, we bike to work, we have a vibrant theater scene, and we have so much else. We even have kayaks for you to paddle right outside our front door. We welcome interest from applicants from outside of the United States.
  • We are friendly– chances are you will like every one of the 100+ (and growing) people who work here. We do. 

AI2 is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. 

If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at hr@allenai.org  or you may call us at 206-548-5600.

 

Tags: AWS Azure Computer Vision Deep Learning Engineering Machine Learning NLP Prototyping PyTorch Research TensorFlow

Perks/benefits: Career development Conferences Medical leave Salary bonus

Region: North America
Country: United States
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