Senior Software Engineer, Data

Senior Software Engineer, Data at Allen Institute for AI (Ai2)

Location: Seattle, WA (on-site requirements vary by team)
Compensation: $126,000 - $189,000 base + bonus

Ai2 is a Seattle based non-profit AI research institute founded in 2014 by the late Paul Allen. Our mission is building breakthrough AI to solve the world's biggest problems. We are hiring 3 Senior Software Engineers to join the Agentic Applications team. This team builds open, production-grade AI systems that power scientific discovery.

Key Responsibilities:

The role involves building data infrastructure for AI research agents exploring scholarly literature. Primary duties include:

• Expanding and improving the Semantic Scholar corpus across academic papers, patents, and domain-specific datasets
• Constructing scalable data pipelines for corpus integration and metadata enrichment
• Deploying ML models for entity disambiguation and topic classification
• Designing APIs exposing structured scholarly data to researchers and AI workflows
• Creating evaluation dashboards for data quality assessment

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree + 8+ years technical experience
• Strong Python skills for data pipeline development
• SQL and PostgreSQL schema design in production environments
• ML workflows experience (model training, tuning, inference deployment)
• Proficiency with structured data formats (XML/JSON/Parquet) and ETL coding
• Workflow orchestration tools (Airflow or equivalent) and cloud infrastructure (AWS, S3, Docker)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Entity resolution and author disambiguation experience
• Vector similarity and topic modeling at scale
• Familiarity with scholarly data systems (arXiv, OpenAlex, USPTO)
• Building APIs for automated agent-based workflows

Tech Stack:

• Python, SQL, PostgreSQL
• Airflow, AWS, S3, Docker
• XML, JSON, Parquet formats

Benefits:

• Medical, dental, vision coverage
• 401(k), HSA, and FSA options
• $125/month commute/internet stipend
• $200/month fitness stipend
• 20 vacation days, 10 sick days, 7 personal days annually