# Young Investigator, FlexOlmo

**Company**: Ai2
**Location**: Berkeley, CA
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $159,650
**Category**: Research
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Ai2 is seeking a talented and motivated Postdoctoral Young Investigator to join the FlexOlmo team, working on large language models designed for flexible data use, with a focus on Mixture-of-Experts (MoE), long-context language models (LCLMs), and retrieval.

The Young Investigator position is a postdoctoral program offering unique benefits, enabling you to balance working collaboratively on an Ai2 project while having opportunities to mentor junior researchers.

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

Requirements:

- Within one year of completing 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)

- Outstanding publication record at AI-related venues

- Extensive research experience in areas such as large language models, training dynamics, scaling laws, and data curation

- Located in or willing to relocate to Berkeley, CA

Benefits:

- Medical, dental, vision, basic life insurance, basic accidental death and dismemberment insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, and employee assistance program

- Voluntary life insurance program, voluntary accidental death and dismemberment program, health savings account plan, healthcare reimbursement arrangement plan, and 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, and twelve paid holidays throughout the calendar year

- Annual bonuses

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## Skills

### Required
- Python
- PyTorch
- deep learning
- machine learning
- natural language processing

### Nice to have
- Mixture-of-Experts
- long-context language models
- retrieval

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