Remote hybrid: Persons in these roles are expected to spend part of their time on-site in our Seattle offices but may occasionally work remotely. On-site requirements vary based on position and team.

Who You Are:

AI2 is seeking a Postdoctoral Young Investigator to join our Semantic Scholar Research team. Young Investigators on our team contribute to AI2's impact-driven mission in an exciting, fast-paced research environment. They have the opportunity to:

Conduct high-impact research, lead research projects, and author scientific papers for publication in high-profile computing conferences and journals,
Collaborate with and learn from team members across AI2, including scientists and engineers,
Mentor early-career researchers and interns on their projects,
Implement and share open source software to improve access to our research, and
Help develop collaborative relationships with relevant academic, industrial, government, and standards organizations.

The Allen AI Young Investigator is a 1 to 3 year postdoctoral program offering unique benefits. The program will enable you to balance working collaboratively on an AI2 project while pursuing an independent research agenda. Details about the program can be found at: https://allenai.org/young-investigators

At AI2, we value the importance of securing a faculty or industry position after your Young Investigator term with us. When looking for your next opportunity, you will not be required to use your accrued Vacation or Personal Time to travel and/or conduct interviews.

We are currently hiring for start dates in 2022 and early 2023. Please reach out to s2-research-careers@allenai.org with any questions about the hiring process or timeline.

Why Semantic Scholar?

As a Young Investigator on our team, you’ll have the unique opportunity to see your research improve the productivity and discovery experience of millions of scholars who use Semantic Scholar (semanticscholar.org).

We collaborate frequently with researchers on other AI2 teams focused on natural language processing and computer vision, among others. Our main office has close ties and unique access to researchers at the University of Washington, only 1.5 miles away. Researchers excited about such internal and external collaborations are encouraged to apply.

Our research areas include, but are not limited to: natural language processing, human-AI interaction, language and vision, machine learning, information retrieval, and data science. See our team page (https://research.semanticscholar.org/publications) for examples of our work.

What you’ll need:

One year or less from completing your PhD, or already have a PhD in Computer Science or related field, with specific focus in one or more of our team’s active research areas.
A strong publication record in AI-related areas. Example venues include ACL, CHI, ICLR, EMNLP, SIGIR, KDD, WWW, CVPR, NeurIPS, and ICML. Contributions to research communities (e.g. workshop organization, tutorials) are a plus.
Strong software engineering skills. Experience with deep learning frameworks (e.g. PyTorch, Tensorflow). Contributions to open-source research libraries (e.g. AllenNLP, spaCy) are a plus.

Who We Are:

The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence is a non-profit research institute in Seattle founded by Paul Allen and headed by Professor Oren Etzioni. The core mission of AI2 is to contribute to humanity through high-impact research in artificial intelligence.

In addition to AI2’s core mission, we also aim to contribute to humanity through our treatment of each member of the AI2 Team. Some highlights are:

We are a learning organization – because everything AI2 does is ground-breaking, we are learning every day. Similarly, through weekly AI2 Academy lectures, a wide variety of world-class AI experts as guest speakers, and our commitment to your personal on-going education, AI2 is place where you will have opportunities to continue learning alongside your coworkers.
We value diversity - We seek to hire, support, and promote people from all genders, ethnicities, and all levels of experience regardless of age. We particularly encourage applications from women, non-binary individuals, people of color, members of the LGBTQA+ community, and people with disabilities of any kind.
We value inclusion - We understand the value that people's individual experiences and perspectives can bring to an organization, and we are building a culture in which all voices are heard, respected and considered.
We emphasize a healthy work/life balance – we believe our team members are happiest and most productive when their work/life balance is optimized. While we value powerful research results which drive our mission forward, we also value dinner with family, weekend time, and vacation time. We offer generous paid vacation and sick leave as well as family leave.
We are collaborative and transparent – we consider ourselves a team, all moving with a common purpose. We are quick to cheer our successes, and even quicker to share and jointly problem solve our failures.
We are in Seattle – and our office is on the water! We have mountains, we have lakes, we have four seasons, we bike to work, we have a vibrant theater scene, and we have so much else. We even have kayaks for you to paddle right outside our front door. We welcome interest from applicants from outside of the United States.
We are friendly– chances are you will like every one of the 100+ (and growing) people who work here. We do.

AI2 is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

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