Ai2, founded by Paul Allen, conducts high-impact research and engineering to tackle key problems in artificial intelligence.
About the role
You are an expert systems engineer who occupies the space between high-level software orchestration and low-level system performance. You are motivated by the idea that world-class infrastructure should be a catalyst for public good, not a proprietary secret. You are as comfortable designing a resource allocation algorithm in Go as you are debugging a NCCL timeout.
What they're looking for
- 8+ years of professional experience developing business-critical software and operating large-scale compute infrastructure. Proficiency in Go and/or Python preferred
- Bachelor’s degree in related field, relevant advanced degree may substitute for equivalent years of technical work experience
- Linux Expertise: Expert-level knowledge of Linux internals, and container runtimes like Docker
- Distributed Systems Expertise: A proven track record of designing, debugging, and optimizing high-scale distributed systems and databases
- Communication: Exceptional writing skills and the ability to drive consensus across diverse groups of researchers and engineers
- A principled approach to engineering: You care about how systems are built and are excited by the unique constraints and freedoms of a non-profit research environment
More about this role
You are an expert systems engineer who occupies the space between high-level software orchestration and low-level system performance. You are motivated by the idea that world-class infrastructure should be a catalyst for public good, not a proprietary secret. You are as comfortable designing a resource allocation algorithm in Go as you are debugging a NCCL timeout.
You lead by example, blending the rigor of a Senior Software Engineer with the pragmatic, hands-on urgency of an HPC operator. Not only do you build systems, but you also ensure they thrive under the pressure of training world-class AI models.
While much of the AI industry has moved behind closed APIs, proprietary datasets, and "black box" infrastructure, Ai2 remains a lighthouse for Open Science. Founded by the late Paul Allen, we are a non-profit research institute dedicated to building AI for the common good.
We don't have a stock price to defend or a walled garden to protect. Instead, we have a mission: to provide the global research community with the transparent, high-performance foundations they need to achieve humanity-enriching breakthroughs.
- Radical Transparency: We don't just release model weights; we...
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