Research Engineer, Asta

AI2
Seattle
Workplace: OnsiteFull time118,800 - 178,200 annuallyFunction: Research & Scientific (R&D)Experience: 2+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Collaboration","Communication","Problem-solving"]

Build infrastructure for next-generation LLM and agentic research; create AI tools to accelerate scientific discovery across biology, cancer research, neuroscience, and social science; design, train, and deploy ML models for agentic workflows; bridge cutting-edge research to a broadly adopted product; contribute to open-source software and data resources.

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Research Engineer, Asta

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Job Summary

Build infrastructure for next-generation LLM and agentic research; create AI tools to accelerate scientific discovery across biology, cancer research, neuroscience, and social science; design, train, and deploy ML models for agentic workflows; bridge cutting-edge research to a broadly adopted product; contribute to open-source software and data resources.
Location: Seattle
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Research & Scientific (R&D)

Key Responsibilities

  • •Build infrastructure to facilitate the next generation of LLM and agentic research.
  • •Create AI tools to facilitate scientific discovery in domains such as biology, cancer research, neuroscience, social science, etc.
  • •Design, build, and train machine learning or language models for agentic workflows.
  • •Bridge the gap between cutting-edge research and a widely adopted product.
  • •Bring software engineering best practices to a research environment; support and collaborate with an open-source community.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: 118,800 - 178,200 annually
Perks:Health Insurance401kAnnual BonusPaid LeaveCommuter BenefitsGym Membership

Key Requirements

  • •Bachelor’s degree in CS/EE/Data Science/Applied Mathematics/Statistics/ML/NLP, or related field, or equivalent relevant experience
  • •2+ years of experience building agentic infrastructure handling tools, skills, and artifacts
  • •2+ years of experience building infrastructure for data preprocessing, ML model training, evaluation, inference, and deployment
  • •Knowledge of modern deep learning, NLP, and reinforcement learning techniques
  • •Strong software engineering skills with Python and PyTorch/Jax/TensorFlow; experience with agentic frameworks (e.g., MCP) and ability to learn new languages/libraries as needed
  • •Familiarity with cloud compute resources (GCP, AWS, Modal) and Docker
Experience:2+ yearsAIMLNLPHCI
Education:Bachelor's
Skills:CollaborationCommunicationProblem-solving
Languages:English
Tech Stack:PythonPyTorchJaxTensorFlowDockerGCPAWSModal

Company Brief

AI2
The Allen Institute for AI (AI2) is a nonprofit research institute that builds AI systems and conducts fundamental research to contribute to scientific discovery, natural language understanding, and open-source tools for the AI community.
Industry: AI & Machine Learning
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Growth: Nonprofit & NGO
Funding: Grant Funded
Headquarters: Seattle, United States
Founded: 2014
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