Research Internship, OLMo

On-site in Seattle: Persons in these roles are expected to work from our offices in Seattle.

Compensation Range: $86,520 - $123,600*
*Compensation dependent upon degree attained 

Who You Are:

Ai2 is seeking talented and motivated Research Interns to join our team working on OLMo, our fully open language models. This internship offers a unique opportunity to contribute to cutting-edge research in natural language processing and machine learning in an exciting, fast-paced research environment. As a Research Intern, 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

Ai2 Research Internship Information:

• Duration: 12 weeks
• Start date: Flexible
• Candidates: A PhD candidate or a master/undergraduate student with a strong research background

We are currently hiring for start dates in 2025. If you have questions, feel free to reach out to olmo-careers@allenai.org. ​​Please apply by November 3, 2024 11:00pm Pacific Time to be considered for our Spring/Summer 2025 internships.  

Who We Are: 

We work to improve NLP systems' performance and accountability, and advance scientific methodologies for evaluating and understanding those systems. We deliver high-impact research of our own and masterfully-engineered open-source tools to accelerate NLP research around the world.  We are leading the Open Language Model (OLMo) project, in collaboration with other teams across Ai2. Following the launch of OLMo in February 2024, we are now embarking on furthering research to provide scientific insights and solutions on how to substantially close the gap with the state-of-the-art in adapted models.

Your Next Challenge: 

Why OLMo? We are building the foundation to foster years of open science and research on language models.

• All interns are paired with one or more mentors from the OLMo team.
• We encourage open collaboration on intern projects, even with researchers at external institutions. We have close ties to the University of Washington, only 1.5 miles away.
• Our pay is competitive, and visa sponsorship is available. 
• We are committed to open science and support students freely publishing papers. Examples:
• OLMoE: Open Mixture-of-Experts Language Models 
• Molmo and PixMo: Open Weights and Open Data for State-of-the-Art Multimodal Models
• Camels in a Changing Climate: Enhancing LM Adaptation with Tulu 2

To see more about our current, future, and past interns, check out our internship page on our website!

What You’ll Need:

Qualifications:

• Pursuing a degree in Computer Science or similar field with research experience in machine learning, natural language processing, language and vision, or related areas. 
• Strong software engineering skills, especially with deep learning frameworks (e.g. PyTorch).

Bonus qualifications:

• A strong publication record at AI-related venues, such as NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, ACL, EMNLP.
• Research experience in related areas like training dynamics, scaling laws, efficiency, data curation, post-training methods (e.g., DPO, PPO), among others.
• Contributions to open-source research libraries (e.g. OLMo, Dolma, Huggingface, AllenNLP).

Physical Demands and Work Environment:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee 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