Research Internship, AI for Science

The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence•Seattle, WA

9d•Onsite

About The Position

Persons in these roles are expected to work from our offices in Seattle. On-site requirements vary based on position and team. If you have questions about on-site work arrangements for this role, please ask your recruiter. Compensation dependent on current degree enrollment. Research Intern, Undergrad: $94,320 (Annually) Research Intern, Masters: $106,110 (Annually) Research Intern, PhD: $140,000 (Annually) Who You Are: Are you passionate about AI, and its potential to help accelerate science? Ai2's Asta Project ( https://allenai.org/asta ) aims to rapidly advance science, developing solutions in the areas of AI research assistants for scientists, literature understanding and synthesis, end-to-end discovery, human-AI interaction and intelligent interfaces, data-driven discovery, agents that can learn over time, methods for training agentic models, and the evaluation and benchmarking of agents. We are looking for ambitious, motivated interns, ready to take on a complex challenge with huge potential impact for the future of AI, in particular with skills and interest in the following focus areas : Agentic planning, reasoning, learning, and evaluation. Automated and AI-assisted scientific discovery. Data-driven discovery. Human-AI Collaboration, esp Literature Sensemaking and Research Ideation. Human-Agent Collaboration: Proactivity, Long-running agent, Memory and context management. Scientific Literature Understanding, RAG, Multi-doc summarization. Continual learning, representation, and reasoning. Post-training, model tuning, distillation, and specialization. (order does not reflect our priority) See our publications for examples of our work. https://allenai.org/papers?tags=semantic scholar https://allenai.org/papers?tags=Aristo We will continue to consider applications on a rolling basis but for full consideration for start dates in summer 2026, please apply by December 15, 2025 to be included in the first round of reviews. Ai2 Research Internship Information: Duration : 12 weeks Start date : Flexible Candidates : A PhD student with a strong research background. Who We Are: The Asta Research Team (Semantic Scholar and Aristo based in Seattle) at the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) is an interdisciplinary research team focused on AI, HCI, ML, and NLP in support of our mission of accelerating science with intelligent and interactive research assistants. We regularly publish in high-profile conferences in NLP (e.g., ACL, EMNLP), HCI (e.g., CHI, UIST, CSCW), ML (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR), IR (e.g., SIGIR), and Accessibility (ASSETS).

Requirements

Are a student completing a PhD with research experience in Computer Science or a related field, with a specific focus on one or more of our team’s active research areas.
Publication record in AI-related venues such as the ones listed above.
Strong software engineering skills.
Experience with system building (e.g., React and Typescript) OR deep learning frameworks (e.g., PyTorch) OR agentic frameworks (e.g., Autogen).

Responsibilities

Conduct high-impact research and author scientific papers for publication in high-profile computing conferences and journals.
Collaborate with and learn from a dedicated Ai2 mentor and other team members across Ai2, including scientists and engineers.

Benefits

Team members and their families are covered by medical, dental, vision, and an employee assistance program.
Team members are able to enroll in our health savings account plan, our healthcare reimbursement arrangement plan, and our health care and dependent care flexible spending account plans.
Team members will receive $125 per month to assist with commuting or internet expenses and will also receive $200 per month for fitness and wellbeing expenses.
Team members will accrue sick days per year in line with Seattle sick time requirements.
If you are usually scheduled to work on a holiday that Ai2 recognizes as a day off, you will be paid for this day.

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