# Research Internship, Open Ecosystem

**Company**: Ai2
**Location**: Seattle, WA
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Job type**: internship
**Salary**: Research Intern, Undergrad: $94,320 (Annually)
Research Intern, Masters: $106,110 (Annually)
Research Intern, PhD: $140,000 (Annually)
**Category**: Research
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Ai2 is seeking talented and motivated Research Interns to join our Open Ecosystem team, working on fully open foundation models like Olmo and Molmo.

This internship offers a unique opportunity to contribute to cutting-edge research in AI in an exciting, fast-paced research environment.

As a Research Intern, you will have the opportunity to:

- 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.

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).

Bonus qualifications:

- 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 infrastructure, and applications in scientific domains.

- Contributions to open-source research libraries (e.g., PyTorch, Huggingface Transformers, olmo-core, AllenNLP).

Duration: 12 weeks Start date: Flexible

We are currently hiring for start dates in 2027. If you have questions, feel free to reach out to olmo-careers@allenai.org. Please apply by January 8, 2027 at 11:00pm Pacific Time to be considered for our Spring/Summer 2027 internships.

Benefits:

- Team members and their families are covered by medical, dental, vision, and an employee assistance program.

- Team members are able to enroll in our health savings account plan, our healthcare reimbursement arrangement plan, and our health care and dependent care flexible spending account plans.

- 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 accrue sick days per year in line with Seattle sick time requirements.

## Skills

### Required
- Computer Science
- machine learning
- natural language processing
- deep learning frameworks
- PyTorch

### Nice to have
- publication record
- foundation model research
- open-source research libraries

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