Ai2, founded by Paul Allen, conducts high-impact research and engineering to tackle key problems in artificial intelligence.
About the role
The Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) is hiring a Senior Engineer to build the foundational architecture behind AI research agents that explore and reason over scholarly literature. You'll design the systems that define how agents, tools, and services interact, creating SDKs, APIs, and execution frameworks that enable researchers to build, evaluate, and scale intelligent systems.
What they're looking for
- Bachelor's degree and 8+ years of technical experience, relevant experience may substitute for education
- Strong Python engineering skills, with experience building production services and developer-facing tools
- Experience designing SDKs, APIs, or frameworks that other engineers built on top of and adopted
- Hands-on experience building or operating agentic systems – agent orchestration, tool integration, sandboxed execution, memory management, or the surfaces agents run in and consume
- Experience designing evaluation or benchmarking infrastructure that measures system or component performance
- Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or similar), containerization, and deployment automation
More about this role
The Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) is hiring a Senior Engineer to build the foundational architecture behind AI research agents that explore and reason over scholarly literature. You'll design the systems that define how agents, tools, and services interact, creating SDKs, APIs, and execution frameworks that enable researchers to build, evaluate, and scale intelligent systems. You'll contribute to the agent architecture, build infrastructure for sandboxed execution and benchmarking, and create evaluation frameworks that measure component performance. You're a seasoned engineer who thrives in greenfield environments, excels at building robust developer-facing infrastructure, and is energized by making complex distributed systems feel simple.
The Agentic Applications team builds open, production-grade AI systems that power scientific discovery. We focus on developing intelligent agents that help researchers explore literature, synthesize knowledge, and accelerate their work across real-world scientific use cases. The team combines strong engineering practices with close collaboration across Ai2's product and research orgs to deliver tools used by millions of researchers and developers...
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