Jan 31
We are looking for enthusiastic early-career researchers to work with us on an internship basis. Graduate students, undergraduates, and postgraduates studying AI-related subjects are welcome to apply year-round for full-time research internships with us. The internships are open to international candidates and will pay competitively with visa sponsorship. Interested parties should have an interest in natural language processing, machine learning, knowledge representation, semantics, question answering, textual entailment, and/or computer vision.
Please apply by the following deadline:
December 11, 2023 for Summer 2024
All applications made by December 11, 2023 will be given full consideration, any applications received after this date will be considered on a rolling basis.
Who We Are:
AI2’s Perceptual Reasoning and Interaction Research team (PRIOR) is looking for PhD, Masters and Undergraduate interns to join our team. PRIOR seeks to advance computer vision to create AI systems that see, explore, learn, and reason about the world. Learn more about PRIOR here.
As a research intern in the PRIOR team, you will have the opportunity to work in a variety of research areas including:
Embodied AI - 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 systems more general, efficient, and capable
AI for Common Good - Apply AI to help address global challenges such as climate change, illegal fishing, and wildlife poaching
Open Source Projects - Make substantial contributions to the tools needed for robust, reproducible, and distributed experimentation
Your Next Challenge:
At AI2, you will be working with world-class AI researchers and talented software engineers. We perform team-based, ambitious research, with a mandate to strive for big breakthroughs, not just incremental progress, in an exciting and interactive workplace.
All interns are paired with a mentor and will participate directly in AI2's groundbreaking work. There are no restrictions on publications based on internships. Each of our research teams has a specific application for interested candidates, so please familiarize yourself with our projects and apply to the specific team(s) that best match your skills and interests.
AI2 Research Interns will have the opportunity to do the following tasks:
Reading the scientific literature to investigate and understand AI research
Executing AI research under guidance of the mentor, which may include building AI systems or system components, developing datasets, and/or conducting experiments
Meeting with the mentor to discuss research progress and ideas
To see more about our current, future, and past interns, check out our internship page on our website!
AI2 Intern of the Year Opportunity:
AI2 offers an Intern of the Year Award that will recognize a research intern who has performed outstanding research that will lead to a high-quality paper aligned with one of AI2's projects. This winning intern will receive:
$10,000 cash prize (applicable to tax)
Invitation to return to AI2 for another internship
External announcement of their award
What You’ll Need:
Be pursuing a BS, MS, or PhD in computer science or a related field
Have an interest in cutting-edge artificial intelligence research
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.