[Hiring] Young Investigator @The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence

Role Description

Ai2 is seeking talented and motivated Postdoctoral Young Investigator to join the FlexOlmo team, working on a series of large language models designed for flexible data use, with a focus on:

• Mixture-of-Experts (MoE)
• Long-context language models (LCLMs)
• Retrieval

This opportunity offers a unique opportunity to contribute to cutting-edge research in natural language processing and machine learning in an exciting, fast-paced research environment. You have the opportunity to:

• Define and lead a high-impact research project.
• Train and release leading models.
• Collaborate with and learn from team members across Ai2.
• Build open-source software for the research community.
• Author scientific papers for publication in a high-profile conference or journal.

The Young Investigator position:

• Duration: 1-3 years
• Start date: Flexible
• Candidates: Are within one year of completing their PhD, or already have a PhD.

The Allen AI Young Investigator is a postdoctoral program offering unique benefits, enabling you to balance working collaboratively on an Ai2 project while having opportunities to mentor junior researchers.

Qualifications

• Are within one year of completing their PhD, or already have a PhD, in Computer Science or similar field with research experience in machine learning, natural language processing, language and vision, or related areas.
• Outstanding individual contributor (IC) skills, especially with deep learning frameworks (e.g. PyTorch).
• An outstanding publication record at AI-related venues, such as NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, COLM, ACL, EMNLP.
• Extensive research experience in areas such as large language models, training dynamics, scaling laws, and data curation.
• Located [or willing to relocate] in Berkeley, CA.

Requirements

• Must be able to remain in a stationary position for long periods of time.
• The ability to communicate information and ideas so others will understand.
• The ability to observe details at close range.
• Can work under deadlines.

Benefits

• Team members and their families are covered by medical, dental, vision, basic life insurance, basic accidental death and dismemberment insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, and an employee assistance program.
• Team members are able to enroll in our voluntary life insurance program, our voluntary accidental death and dismemberment program, our health savings account plan, our healthcare reimbursement arrangement plan, and our health care and dependent care flexible spending account plans.
• Team members are able to enroll in our company’s 401k plan.
• Team members will receive $125 per month to assist with commuting or internet expenses and will also receive $200 per month for fitness and wellbeing expenses.
• Team members will also receive up to ten sick days per year, up to seven personal days per year, up to 20 vacation days per year and twelve paid holidays throughout the calendar year.
• Team members will be able to receive annual bonuses.