Research Engineer, PRIOR

Key Skills

Python Programming, Scala Programming, C++, Java Programming, Machine learning techniques, Data science techniques, SQL, Apache Hadoop, MapReduce, TensorFlow, PyTorch, R Programming

Job Description

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.

Your Next Challenge:

PRIOR is looking for Research Engineers to work closely with our scientists on a variety of projects in the following research areas:

• Embodied AI
• Language and Vision
• Visual knowledge extraction
• Visual reasoning
• Efficient deep learning for computer vision
• And more ...

Your responsibilities may include:

• Building and evaluating deep learning models
• Collecting annotated data using crowdsourcing
• Writing and submitting research papers to top tier AI conferences
• Developing computer vision and reinforcement learning packages to assist our research efforts internally as well as share externally
• And more ...

What You Will Need:

• Strong software development skills
• Background in computer vision or machine learning
• Strong prototyping skills to implement preliminary research ideas
• Experience with deep learning frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, Tensorflow, etc.)
• Strong collaboration skills - our environment is small and collaborative, and we'd like you to thrive on working closely with others.

Bonus qualifications:

• Publications in top-tier computer vision or machine learning conferences
• Experience with cloud services (e.g., AWS and Azure)
• Experience building systems at scale
• Experience building deep learning packages or frameworks
• Experience with crowdsourced data collection (e.g., Amazon’s Mechanical Turk)