The Allen Institute for AI
Research Internship, Open Ecosystem
$94K–$140K
Seattle, WA +1 · Internship · Posted Oct 26, 2026
- Location
- Seattle, WA
Seattle, WA, United States - Experience
- Research experience in machine learning, natural language processing, language and vision, or related areas; no years specified. Candidates may be PhD candidates or master’s/undergraduate students with a strong research background.
- Education
- Pursuing a doctoral degree in Computer Science or similar field; the internship information also welcomes master’s and undergraduate students with a strong research background.
- Visa sponsorship
- Visa sponsorship is available.
About the job
Conduct research on fully open foundation models with the Open Ecosystem team, contributing to model training, open-source tools, and scientific publications.
What you'll do
- Define and lead a research project; train and release models.
- Build open-source software and collaborate with Ai2 researchers.
- Author scientific papers for publication.
What they ask for
- Pursuing a doctoral degree in Computer Science or a similar field, with machine-learning, natural-language-processing, language-and-vision, or related research experience.
- Strong software engineering skills, especially with deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch.
Nice to have
- Strong publication record at AI-related venues such as NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, COLM, ACL, or EMNLP.
- Experience in foundation-model research or contributions to open-source research libraries.
Pay
$94,320 (Annually) (undergraduate); $106,110 (Annually) (masters); $140,000 (Annually) (PhD); currency and pay type not stated.
Tools
PyTorch, Huggingface Transformers, olmo-core, AllenNLP
AI focus
Research and develop fully open foundation models, including training, scaling, efficiency, data curation, post-training, agentic training, and related applications.
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