Young Investigator

Research: PRIOR     ·      Remote Eligible    ·    Full time

Remote eligible: Persons in these roles are welcome to work remotely from any state in the US.

The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) is a non-profit research institute in Seattle founded by Paul Allen and headed by Professor Oren Etzioni. The core mission of (AI2) is to contribute to humanity through high-impact AI research and engineering. 

AI2’s Perceptual Reasoning and Interaction Research team (PRIOR) seeks to advance computer vision to create AI systems that see, explore, learn, and reason about the world. 

The Allen AI Young Investigator is a postdoctoral program offering unique benefits. The program will enable you to balance working collaboratively on a PRIOR project while pursuing an independent research agenda.

Benefits:

• Mentorship in research, grant writing, and more
• 50% collaborative work on a PRIOR project
• 50% work on your own projects
• Generous travel budget
• AI2 provides support for obtaining a visa through its immigration attorney, and pays the necessary expenses
• Access to AI2’s data, AWS infrastructure, and other resources as needed
• No grant writing, teaching, or administrative responsibilities
• Opportunity to mentor interns and pre-doctoral candidates
• $100K research funding from AI2 after completion (based on proposal)

As a YI in the PRIOR team, you will have the opportunity to work in a variety of research areas including:

• Embodied AI
• Language and Vision
• Visual knowledge extraction
• Visual reasoning
• Representation learning
• Scene analysis and understanding
• Recognition, detection and segmentation
• Efficient deep learning
• And more …

At AI2, we value the importance of securing a faculty or industry position after your Young Investigator term with us.  When looking for your next opportunity, you will not be required to use your accrued Vacation or Personal Time to travel and/or conduct interviews. 

What You Will Need:

Young Investigator applicants at PRIOR should have a strong foundation (PhD level) in one or more of the research areas listed above. We look favorably upon extensive work experience and publishing peer reviewed work at top scientific venues in our field including CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, NeurIPS, etc.

Who We Are:

In addition to AI2’s core mission, we also aim to contribute to humanity through our treatment of each member of the AI2 Team. Some highlights are:

• We are a learning organization– because everything AI2 does is ground-breaking, we are learning every day. Similarly, through weekly AI2 Academy lectures, a wide variety of world-class AI experts as guest speakers, and our commitment to your personal on-going education, AI2 is place where you will have opportunities to continue learning alongside your coworkers. 
• We value diversity –We seek to hire, support, and promote people from all genders, ethnicities, and all levels of experience regardless of age. We particularly encourage applications from women, non-binary individuals, people of color, members of the LGBTQA+ community, and people with disabilities of any kind. 
• We value inclusion –We understand the value that people’s individual experiences and perspectives can bring to an organization, and we are building a culture in which all voices are heard, respected and considered.
• We emphasize a healthy work/life balance – we believe our team members are happiest and most productive when their work/life balance is optimized. While we value powerful research results which drive our mission forward, we also value dinner with family, weekend time, and vacation time. We offer generous paid vacation and sick leave as well as family leave.
• We are collaborative and transparent – we consider ourselves a team, all moving with a common purpose. We are quick to cheer our successes, and even quicker to share and jointly problem solve our failures.
• We are in Seattle – and our office is on the water! We have mountains, we have lakes, we have four seasons, we bike to work, we have a vibrant theater scene, and we have so much else. We even have kayaks for you to paddle right outside our front door. We welcome interest from applicants from outside of the United States.
• We are friendly– chances are you will like every one of the 100+ (and growing) people who work here. We do. 

AI2 is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. 

If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at hr@allenai.org  or you may call us at 206-548-5600.

Please click here to apply.