The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence
The Research Engineer, Robotics - Roboticist at Ai2 owns the control stack for physical robots, bringing up and tuning real-time, torque-level control on arms, hands, and humanoids. This role involves designing and building necessary hardware, ensuring reliable sim-to-real transfer of learned policies, and contributing to open-source releases and publications. The position requires strong expertise in controls, whole-body control, and system design to support daily research experiments.
Headquarters
Burton, Washington, United States
Company Size
201-500 employees
Founded
2014
Ai2 (Allen Institute for AI) is a nonprofit research institute founded by Paul G. Allen and led by Ali Farhadi that conducts high‑impact research and engineering to tackle core problems in artificial intelligence. The organization builds open models, tools, datasets, and platforms—examples include Semantic Scholar, AllenNLP and newer open models like Olmo and Tülu—targeting language, vision, reasoning, and scientific knowledge discovery. Ai2 emphasizes openness, reproducibility, and deploying research into usable systems, working with academia and industry to accelerate breakthroughs. Its mission is to ensure AI advances are broadly useful and benefit the public.
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Headquarters
San Francisco, CA
Company Size
201-500 employees
Founded
2018
Industry
Technology
Glassdoor Rating
4.2 / 5
Sarah Johnson
Chief Executive Officer
Michael Chen
Chief Technology Officer
Emily Williams
VP of Engineering
David Rodriguez
VP of Product
Jessica Thompson
Chief Financial Officer
Andrew Park
VP of Sales
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