Young Investigator, Semantic Scholar

The Allen Institute for AI (AI2) is seeking a Young Investigator to join their Semantic Scholar Research team in Seattle. This role offers the opportunity to conduct high-impact research, lead research projects, and author scientific papers for publication. The Young Investigator will collaborate with team members across AI2, mentor early-career researchers and interns, and help develop collaborative relationships with academic, industrial, government, and standards organizations. This is a postdoctoral program offering unique benefits, enabling a balance between collaborative work on an Ai2 project and pursuing an independent research agenda.

Responsibilities:

• Dedicated Ai2 mentor: Mentorship in research, grant writing, and more
• 50% collaborative work on an Ai2 project
• 50% work on your own projects
• Conduct high-impact research, lead research projects, and author scientific papers for publication in high-profile computing conferences and journals
• Collaborate with and learn from team members across Ai2, including scientists and engineers
• Mentor early-career researchers and interns on their projects
• Implement and share open source software to improve access to our research
• Help develop collaborative relationships with relevant academic, industrial, government, and standards organizations

Requirements:

• Within one year of completing their PhD, or already have a PhD in Computer Science or related field, with specific focus in one or more of our team’s active research areas
• A strong publication record in AI-related areas (e.g., ACL, CHI, ICLR, EMNLP, SIGIR, KDD, WWW, CVPR, NeurIPS, and ICML)
• Contributions to research communities (e.g. workshop organization, tutorials) are a plus.
• Strong software engineering skills
• Experience with deep learning frameworks (e.g. PyTorch, Tensorflow)
• Contributions to open-source research libraries (e.g. AllenNLP, spaCy) are a plus

The role offers:

• Medical, dental, vision, and an employee assistance program
• Health savings account plan, healthcare reimbursement arrangement plan, and health care and dependent care flexible spending account plans
• Company’s 401k plan
• $125 per month to assist with commuting or internet expenses and will also receive $200 per month for fitness and wellbeing expenses
• Up to ten sick days per year, up to seven personal days per year, up to 20 vacation days per year and twelve paid holidays throughout the calendar year
• Annual bonuses