# Senior Software Engineer, Agent Platform (AI for the Planet) 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: $147K to $220K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-07
- Apply by: 2026-10-12
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/thealleninstitute/jobs/8110068
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/allen-institute-for-artificial-intelligence-senior-software-engineer-agent-platf/

## About the role

If you're the kind of engineer who gets energized by building technology that helps protect oceans, forests, and the climate, who wants to move fast, work across disciplines, and see your code have real-world impact, this is for you. The mission is the point. We're building AI for the planet: environmental conservation, food security, climate. If it’s important to you to work on problems with a positive impact on our planet and the world, you’re in the right place.

## What they're looking for

- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Range across web services, distributed systems, data pipelines, and cloud tooling
- A track record of shipping products to external users and owning them in production
- Opinions about API design, and a preference for simple designs over clever ones
- Willingness to write documentation as part of the work rather than after it
- Fluency with modern AI tools in your own workflow

Tags: Applied Science