Remote hybrid: Persons in these roles are expected to spend part of their time on-site in our Seattle offices and may occasionally work remotely from their home in the Greater Seattle area. On-site requirements vary based on position and team. If you have questions about Hybrid work arrangements for this role, please ask your recruiter.

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

Research Internship

Who You Are:

AI2 is seeking passionate, early-career researchers to join us for an internship. Undergraduate, Masters and PhD graduate students in AI-related fields are invited to apply for full-time research internships with us year-round. Applicants should have an interest in natural language processing, machine learning, knowledge representation, semantics, question answering, textual entailment, and/or computer vision. International candidates are welcome to apply. Pay is competitive, and visa sponsorship is available.

​​Please apply by the following deadlines: 

July 15, 2023 for Spring 2024 | October 15, 2023 for Summer 2024 | January 15, 2024 for Fall 2024

Who We Are: 

The AllenNLP team envisions language-centered AI that equitably serves humanity. 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.  In 2023, we are leading the Open Language Model (OLMo) project, in collaboration with other teams across AI2.

Your Next Challenge:

At AI2, you will be working with world-class AI researchers and talented software engineers. We perform team-based, ambitious research, with a mandate to strive for big breakthroughs, not just incremental progress, in an exciting and interactive workplace. 

All interns are paired with a mentor and will participate directly in AI2's groundbreaking work. There are no restrictions on publications based on internships. Each of our research teams has a specific application for interested candidates, so please familiarize yourself with our projects and apply to the specific team(s) that best match your skills and interests.

AI2 Research Interns will have the opportunity to do the following tasks:

• Reading the scientific literature to investigate and understand AI research 
• Executing AI research under guidance of the mentor, which may include building AI systems or system components, developing datasets, and/or conducting experiments 
• Meeting with the mentor to discuss research progress and ideas

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

AI2 Intern of the Year Opportunity:

AI2 offers an Intern of the Year Award that will recognize a research intern who has performed outstanding research that will lead to a high-quality paper aligned with one of AI2's projects.  This winning intern will receive:

• $10,000 cash prize (applicable to tax)
• Invitation to return to AI2 for another internship
• External announcement of their award

What You’ll Need:

• Be pursuing a BS, MS, or PhD in computer science or a related field
• Have an interest in cutting-edge artificial intelligence research

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 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 vari