# Senior Research Scientist, Open Ecosystem

**Company**: Ai2
**Location**: Seattle, WA
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $170,000 - $270,000
**Category**: Research
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are hiring for a Senior Research Scientist to join us in training fully open foundation models with a focus on accelerating scientific discovery.

The ideal candidate will have significant experience building and training modern foundation models, including developing training pipelines and curating high-quality training data.

The Open Ecosystem team, responsible for the Olmo and Molmo model series, develops and releases truly open AI research and best-in-class artifacts that transform the way researchers, scientists, and practitioners think about and participate in AI research, development, and societal impact.

Responsibilities:

- Provide scientific leadership and define and conduct ground-breaking research

- Lead small teams and help drive and refine Ai2's mission in an exciting, fast-paced research environment

- Oversee and implement software systems supporting Ai2's research

- Author and present scientific papers and presentations for peer-reviewed journals and conferences

- Develop collaborative and strategic relationships with relevant academic, industrial, government, and standards organizations

Requirements:

- Strong foundation (PhD level) in areas of artificial intelligence, machine learning, or related domains

- Significant experience building and training modern foundation models, including developing training pipelines and curating high-quality training data

- Expertise in agentic training, passion for applying AI to accelerate scientific discovery, and experience with multimodal data

Benefits:

- Medical, dental, vision, and employee assistance 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 and long-term incentive plan

## Skills

### Required
- artificial intelligence
- machine learning
- foundation models
- agentic training
- multimodal data

### Nice to have
- expertise in agentic training
- passion for applying AI to accelerate scientific discovery
- experience with multimodal data

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