Software Engineer II
Company: The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence
Location: Seattle
Posted on: March 18, 2023
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Job Description:
Remote hybrid: Persons in these roles are expected to spend part
of their time on-site in our Seattle offices but may occasionally
work remotely. On-site requirements vary based on position and
team.
Compensation Range: $115,380 - $170,760
Potential Bonus: Up to 15%
Software Engineer, PRIOR Team
The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) 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 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.
Our latest work includes:
Unified-IO: The first neural model to perform a large and diverse
set of AI tasks spanning classical computer vision, image
synthesis, vision-and-language, and natural language processing
(NLP).
ProcTHOR: Enabling Embodied AI to scale by orders of magnitude by
procedurally generating interactive 3D environments.
Iconary: Pictionary-style web game when you play against an AI
attempting to guess or draw a representation of a sentence using
icons.
Learn more about our work at
Your Next Challenge:
PRIOR is looking for a Software Engineer to work closely with our
scientists on a variety of projects in the following research
areas:
Vision and Language
Embodied AI
AI for the Common Good
And more ...
Your responsibilities may include:
Create code repositories and build the foundation for scalable
research projects and public facing demos.
Build internal tools to automate tasks.
Design and implement solutions for making existing code bases more
robust.
Add continuous integration systems to projects.
Reproduce errors encountered by researchers and help develop
solutions.
Create testing infrastructure and write tests.
Create infrastructure to facilitate research projects, data
collection or demos using various Cloud services (e.g. from
providers like AWS, GCP)
Implement functionality on computer vision and reinforcement
learning toolsets.
Implement functionality on Embodied AI platforms (AI2 THOR).
Collect annotated data using crowdsourcing.
Work on public facing demos at various levels of the stack (front
to backend).
And more ...
What You Will Need:
Strong software development skills
Experience with cloud services (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure)
Strong engineering skills to implement scalable infrastructure
designs.
Strong investigation and debugging skills to break apart systems
and fix bugs.
Strong collaboration skills - our environment is small and
collaborative, and we'd like you to thrive on working closely with
others.
Bonus qualifications:
Experience building systems at scale
Experience launching public facing websites or demos.
Experience in Unity or other 3D game development tools
Experience architecting infrastructure solutions.
Experience with crowdsourced data collection (e.g., Amazon's
Mechanical Turk)
Background in computer vision or machine learning like experience
in deep learning frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, Tensorflow, etc.)
Building and evaluating deep learning models
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 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 compliance poster and the by clicking on their
corresponding links.
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 recruiting@allenai.org
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