# Senior Software Engineer, AI Infrastructure 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: 2026-06-08
- Apply by: 2026-10-12
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/thealleninstitute/jobs/7985437
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/allen-institute-for-artificial-intelligence-senior-software-engineer-ai-infrastr/

## 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

Tags: Engineering