The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence - Senior Software Engineer, AI for the Planet
Requirements
• We're looking for a strong builder. Someone with deep experience shipping high-quality, scalable, full-stack products that integrate state-of-the-art ML models. Someone who wants to grow alongside a team working at the forefront of applied AI, on a product that exists to do good in the world. A great candidate is someone who thoughtfully reflects on our internal processes and is comfortable pushing for change. • 5+ years of professional software engineering experience in industry. Internships, graduate school, and research positions are valuable but do not count toward this. • Experience working as a generalist software engineer across multiple parts of the stack and product lifecycle. Strong foundations in web applications, data pipelines, distributed systems, and modern cloud tooling. The specific frameworks matter less than demonstrated ability to pick up new technologies as the field evolves. • You're using modern AI tooling (e.g. Claude Code, agentic workflows) to move faster and rethink how engineering gets done. • A track record of taking software products end to end. Shaping requirements, designing architecture, shipping to external users, and continuing to develop them over time based on user feedback. • Ownership overproduction systems. Including taking on-call rotations, troubleshooting production issues, and digging into logs, metrics, and code to develop real, actionable insight when something needs attention. • You write clear technical plans, give and receive feedback well, constantly prioritize, and can guide stakeholders through the details. • Experience at small or growth-stage companies, where you own outcomes end to end without heavy process scaffolding. • Hands-on experience integrating machine learning models into production systems: deployment, monitoring, scaling real-time inference, and iteration. You collaborated directly with researchers to bring models out of a research context, and you built user-facing applications where AI outputs need to be communicated clearly to non-technical users. • You're opinionated about software engineering practice: coding patterns, breaking down work, code review, testing, build systems. You bring that judgment to the team while staying open to other perspectives. • A demonstrated track record of technical depth and self-directed learning - for example: open-source contributions, technical writing, conference talks, sustained side projects. • Open to occasional international travel to meet directly with the people using what we build.
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 are able to enroll in our company’s 401k plan. • 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 also receive 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. • Team members will be able to receive annual bonuses and can participate in the long-term incentive plan. • Note: This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the team members(s) of this position. Team members will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by any person authorized to give instructions or assignments. All duties and responsibilities are essential functions and requirements and are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities. To perform this job successfully, the team member(s) will possess the skills, aptitudes, and abilities to perform each duty proficiently. Some requirements may exclude individuals who pose a direct threat or significant risk to the health or safety of themselves or others. The requirements listed in this document are the minimum levels of knowledge, skills, or abilities. This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an at will relationship.
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