Young Investigator, 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.

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 PYI 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 ...

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.