Young Investigator, PRIOR
The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence
About this role
This is a postdoctoral position within Ai2's Perceptual Reasoning and Interaction Research team, focusing on advancing AI systems that see, explore, learn, and reason with a collaborative and flexible research agenda. The role involves working on cutting-edge projects in AI, computer vision, robotics, and multimodal agents, with a strong emphasis on open science and collaboration with academic partners.
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About The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence
allenai.orgAi2 (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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About The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence
Headquarters
San Francisco, CA
Company Size
201-500 employees
Founded
2018
Industry
Technology
Glassdoor Rating
4.2 / 5
Leadership Team
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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Salary
$160k
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