# Senior Research Engineer, Olmo + Molmo at Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence

- Company: Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence
- What the company does: Ai2, founded by Paul Allen, conducts high-impact research and engineering to tackle key problems in artificial intelligence.
- Company website: https://allenai.org
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Seattle, WA
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $174K to $261K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-06-05
- Apply by: 2026-10-12
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/thealleninstitute/jobs/7980660
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/allen-institute-for-artificial-intelligence-senior-research-engineer-olmo-molmo/

## About the role

To thrive as a Research Engineer at Ai2, you'll bring a blend of deep technical expertise and a collaborative, self-directed mindset. You have extensive experience with deep learning and/or foundation models — whether through a PhD in ML or equivalent hands-on industry work. You're a curious, agile engineer who can generate ideas, design experiments, and implement them in Python against real AI systems.

## What they're looking for

- 8 years of industry experience w 4+ years of ML infrastructure experience — data preprocessing, model training, evaluation, inference, and deployment
- Experience with end-to-end model development — dataset construction, training, fine-tuning, evaluation, profiling, and monitoring
- Familiarity with modern model architectures — including LLMs (MoEs, long-context models), vision-language models (e.g., Molmo, LLaVA), and experience training and evaluating both
- Agentic systems knowledge — tools, memory, and long-running workflows
- Strong software engineering fundamentals — performant, scalable systems and confident debugging
- Proficiency in Python and a major ML framework (PyTorch, JAX, or TensorFlow), with the flexibility to pick up new tools as needed

Tags: Research