# Senior Software Engineer, Agent Frameworks 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: $147K to $220K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-05-02
- Apply by: 2026-10-12
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/thealleninstitute/jobs/7872683
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/allen-institute-for-artificial-intelligence-senior-software-engineer-agent-frame/

## 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

Tags: Engineering