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Compensation Range: $153,040 - $235,680

Machine Learning Engineer, Applied Science and Technology, Environmental AI

This is a unique role on a newly formed team that is akin in scope, breadth, and pace to a founding AI engineer at a startup.

Who You Are:

You are a machine learning engineer passionate about AI for Earth. You are comfortable working at any point on the research to production cycle, from training and evaluating novel deep learning models to creating highly performant production services. You believe that AI can be a powerful force for good. 

Who We Are: 

We are a newly formed lean and fast moving AI team exclusively dedicated to Environmental AI. We believe that AI can help solve some of the biggest problems the world faces. We strongly believe in open and transparent AI (as does the broader organization). We highly value the machine learning research, academic, and engineering communities and we believe in fostering meaningful collaborations between them. We work closely with the many talented research scientists at AI2 (eg. Aristo, PRIOR) and we consider ourselves fortunate to have that opportunity. We publish when we can, but we spend the vast majority of our time on engineering and shipping AI products to users. The models we ship run at global scale in real time and must be performant. We all live in Seattle and we enjoy working together in person, or meeting over coffee. We teach and learn from one another constantly and we help each-other grow. We have a leadership team that strongly believes in us and believes that AI can be a powerful force for good. We want to get great things done and we want to move quickly, because there is an urgency to the environmental threats that our planet is facing. Check out the following to learn more about our work, team culture, code, papers, talks, and ideas about what we might build together. 

Your Next Challenge:

The essential functions include, but are not limited to the following:

• Expertise in both NLP (including LLMs) and CV. If you are not comfortable working with state of the art deep learning (both NLP and CV), this is not a good fit. By comfortable we mean the ability to read current research and then implement those ideas and improve on them or create new bespoke architectures from scratch. 
• Ability to read, write, debug, and optimize ML/AI code. 
• Ability to read and apply current research in AI
• Deep understanding of the entire ML software development life cycle and how to advance it
• Strong collaboration and teamwork skills

What You’ll Need:

• Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in CS, EE/Applied Mathematics/Statistics/ML/NLP, or relevant engineering experience
• Experience with statistics and time series analysis
• Expertise in Python
• Familiarity working with cloud services (GCP, AWS, or Azure)
• Experience with containerization (Docker)
• Experience with the complete model development cycle, including data set construction, training, tuning, evaluation, performance profiling and optimization, and monitoring.

Preferred:

• Published papers in ML/AI (NLP or CV)
• Open source contributions
• Evidence of work on environmental cause
• Highly proactive and self-motivated 
• Experience with LLM assisted engineering 
• Experience with satellite imagery and/or AIS/GPS Data

Physical Demands and Work Environment:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by a team member to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the functions.

• 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. Must be able to exchange accurate information in these situations. 
• The ability to observe details at close range.
• Can work under deadlines.

A Little More About AI2:

The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence is a non-profit research institute in Seattle founded by Paul Allen. The core mission of AI2 is to contribute to humanity through high-impact research in artificial intelligence. 

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 a 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 200+ (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. You may view the related Know Your Rights compliance poster and the Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision by clicking on their corresponding links. 

This employer participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S. If E-Verify cannot confirm that you are authorized to work, this employer is required to give you written instructions and an opportunity to contact the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) or Social Security Administration (SSA) so you can begin to resolve the issue before the employer can take any action against you, including terminating your employment. Employers can only use E-Verify once you have accepted a job offer and completed the Form I-9.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to employees and applicants with disabilities to the full extent required by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). If you feel you need a reasonable accommodation pursuant to the ADA, you are encouraged to contact us at [email protected] 

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 and can participate in the long-term incentive plan.

Note: This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the team members(s) of this position. Team members will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by any person authorized to give instructions or assignments. All duties and responsibilities are essential functions and requirements and are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities. To perform this job successfully, the team member(s) will possess the skills, aptitudes, and abilities to perform each duty proficiently. Some requirements may exclude individuals who pose a direct threat or significant risk to the health or safety of themselves or others. The requirements listed in this document are the minimum levels of knowledge, skills, or abilities. This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an at will relationship.