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.