The Allen Institute for AI
Senior Research Engineer, Olmo + Molmo
$174K–$261K
Seattle, WA +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jun 5, 2026
- Location
- Seattle, WA
Seattle, WA, United States - Experience
- 8 years of industry experience, including 4+ years of ML infrastructure experience; a minimum of 2 years of software development experience (or equivalent experience).
- Education
- BS or MSc in Computer Science, Statistics, Engineering, Applied Mathematics, or a related quantitative field (or equivalent experience).
- Visa sponsorship
- The employer participates in E-Verify and verifies U.S. work authorization after a job offer and completion of Form I-9; no sponsorship policy is stated.
About the job
Leads end-to-end engineering and research for training, evaluating, and releasing open large language, multimodal, and agentic models.
What you'll do
- Build and optimize research infrastructure, including training and inference pipelines, dataset curation, and large-scale preprocessing.
- Design, train, and evaluate multimodal models and agentic workflows; scope and lead research projects.
- Apply strong software engineering practices and contribute open-source models, datasets, APIs, and technical reports.
What they ask for
- 8 years of industry experience, including 4+ years of ML infrastructure experience.
- Experience with end-to-end model development, including dataset construction, training, fine-tuning, evaluation, profiling, and monitoring.
- Knowledge of LLM and vision-language model architectures and agentic systems; experience training and evaluating LLMs and vision-language models.
- Proficiency in Python and a major ML framework (PyTorch, JAX, or TensorFlow); familiarity with cloud and containerization.
Pay
$174,240 - $261,360 USD base salary
Tools
Python, PyTorch, JAX, TensorFlow, GCP, AWS, Docker
AI focus
Develops open LLMs, multimodal models, and agentic systems, including model training, evaluation, infrastructure, and open-source releases.
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