Research Internship, AI for Science

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%20scholar
• 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).

Your Next Challenge:

Research interns on our team will have the opportunity to:

• 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.

What You’ll Need:

• 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).

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. We have a beautiful office right on Lake Union; catered lunches; smart, friendly and helpful co-workers. We are right next to multiple mountain ranges, oceans, and forests, that make for a vibrant outdoor scene.

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 variety of world-class AI experts as guest speakers, and our commitment to your personal on-going education, Ai2 is a place where you will have opportunities to continue learning alongside your coworkers.
• We value diversity - We seek to hire, support, and promote people from all genders, ethnicities, and all levels of experience regardless of age. We particularly encourage applications from women, non-binary individuals, people of color, members of the LGBTQA+ community, and people with disabilities of any kind.
• We value inclusion - We understand the value that people's individual experiences and perspectives can bring to an organization, and we are building a culture in which all voices are heard, respected and considered.
• We emphasize a healthy work/life balance – we believe our team members are happiest and most productive when their work/life balance is optimized. While we value powerful research results which drive our mission forward, we also value dinner with family, weekend time, and vacation time. We offer generous paid vacation and sick leave as well as family leave.
• We are collaborative and transparent – we consider ourselves a team, all moving with a common purpose. We are quick to cheer our successes, and even quicker to share and jointly problem solve our failures.
• We are in Seattle – and our office is on the water! We have mountains, we have lakes, we have four seasons, we bike to work, we have a vibrant theater scene, and we have so much else. We even have kayaks for you to paddle right outside our front door. We welcome interest from applicants from outside of the United States.
• We are friendly– chances are you will like every one of the 200+ (and growing) people who work here. We do.

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