# Senior Research Scientist, Open Ecosystem 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 (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: Seattle, WA
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $170K to $270K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-31
- Apply by: 2026-10-15
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/thealleninstitute/jobs/8159367
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/allen-institute-for-artificial-intelligence-senior-research-scientist-open-ecosy/

## About the role

We are hiring for a Senior Research Scientist to join us in training fully open foundation models with a focus on accelerating scientific discovery. The ideal candidate will have significant experience building and training modern foundation models, including developing training pipelines and curating high-quality training data. We are particularly interested in candidates with expertise in agentic training, passion for applying AI to accelerate scientific discovery, and experience with multimodal data.

## What they're looking for

- Foundation models for scientific use cases
- Fundamental investigations in foundation model training
- Agentic training
- Multimodal foundation models
- And more…
- Must be able to remain in a stationary position for long periods of time

Tags: Research