Young Investigator, PRIOR
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About this role
Who You Are:
Are you passionate about taking artificial intelligence to the next level, to solve problems that require modeling, reasoning, and explanation? We are looking for talented researchers interested in applying their skills towards the next generation of intelligent systems, and pursuing our mission of AI for the common good.
The Young Investigator position:
- Duration: 1-3 years
- Start date: Flexible
- Candidates: Are within one year of completing their PhD, or already have a PhD
- The Allen AI Young Investigator is a postdoctoral program offering unique benefits. The program will enable you to balance working collaboratively on an Ai2 project while pursuing an independent research agenda.
Who We Are:
Ai2’s Perceptual Reasoning and Interaction Research team (PRIOR) is looking Young Investigators—strong postdoctoral candidates—to join our team. PRIOR seeks to advance computer vision to create AI systems that see, explore, learn, and reason about the world.
As a research intern in the PRIOR team, you will have the opportunity to work in a variety of research areas including:
- Embodied AI / Robotics - Enable agents that safely navigate, manipulate objects, and follow instructions in simulation and in the real world (w/ real robots).
- Language & Vision - Make vision and language models more general, efficient, and capable.
- Agents - Develop multimodal agents that automate real user tasks.
- AI for Common Good - Apply AI to help address global challenges such as climate change, illegal fishing, wildlife poaching, and satellite image time series understanding.
- Open source projects - Make substantial contributions to the tools needed for robust, reproducible, and distributed experimentation (including AllenAct framework for Embodied AI (http://allenact.org/), Ai2-THOR (https://ai2thor.allenai.org/))
We are deeply committed to open science and publishing. We have strong ties to the University of Washington. Young Investigators will also have joint affiliation and collaborations with PhD students at the University of Washington.
Your Next Challenge:
The essential functions include, but are not limited to the following:
- Dedicated Ai2 mentor: Mentorship in research, grant writing, and more
- 50% collaborative work on an Ai2 project + UW projects
- 50% work on your own projects
At Ai2, we value the importance of securing a faculty or industry position after your Young Investigator term with us. When looking for your next opportunity, you will not be required to use your accrued Vacation or Personal Time to travel and/or conduct interviews.
What You’ll Need:
- Are within one year of completing their PhD, or already have a PhD
- Young Investigator applicants at PRIOR should have a strong foundation (PhD level) in one or more of the research areas listed above.
- We look favorably upon extensive work experience and publishing peer reviewed work at top scientific venues in our field including CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, NeurIPS, etc.
- The Allen AI Young Investigator is a postdoctoral program offering unique benefits. The program will enable you to balance working collaboratively on an Ai2 project while pursuing an independent research agenda.