IT Engineer

Persons in these roles are expected to work from our offices in Seattle. 

Our base salary range is $70,560 - $105,840.

This is a temporary (40 hrs/week) position for 3 months.

Who You Are:

Do you like working with cutting-edge computer hardware? Do you want to support some of the top minds in the Artificial Intelligence field? The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (Ai2) is looking for an IT Engineer to join our Infrastructure team. We are building the systems that power our research, both in the cloud and on-site. If you join our team, you will contribute to the creation of high impact, world changing research by providing IT support across the entire organization.

Who We Are: 

At Ai2, you will not only be working with a group of talented engineers, but with some of the top AI researchers in the world. We have projects on understanding and answering real-world questions, learning from pictures and videos, and building the world’s best academic search engine. As an IT Engineer on the infrastructure team, you would have the chance to learn about and support all of these projects.

We have a beautiful office right on Lake Union in Seattle; catered lunches five times a week; great pay and benefits; smart, friendly and helpful coworkers; and even a couple of kayaks you can take out on sunny days.

Your Next Challenge:

The essential functions include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Providing IT support for all local and remote employees
• Providing IT and AV support for webcast meetings and talks
• Troubleshooting and maintaining our internal systems and equipment
• Testing, updating, and adding to our user documentation. 

What You’ll Need:

• Excellent communication, mentoring, and customer service skills
• 1-3+ years in an IT engineer or IT support role
• Experience administering macOS and Linux operating systems 
• Experience troubleshooting both personal and server hardware

Physical Demands and Work Environment:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by a team member to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the functions.

• Occasionally required to remain seated in a normal position for long periods of time.
• Regularly required to walk short distances
• Regularly required to maintain balance while walking, standing, crouching, or running.
• Routinely required to reach up and out with hands and arms.

A Little More About Ai2:

The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence is a non-profit research institute in Seattle founded by Paul Allen. 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.

Ai2 is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. You may view the related Know Your Rights compliance poster and the Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision by clicking on their corresponding links. 

This employer participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S. If E-Verify cannot confirm that you are authorized to work, this employer is required to give you written instructions and an opportunity to contact the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) or Social Security Administration (SSA) so you can begin to resolve the issue before the employer can take any action against you, including terminating your employment. Employers can only use E-Verify once you have accepted a job offer and completed the Form I-9.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to employees and applicants with disabilities to the full extent required by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). If you feel you need a reasonable accommodation pursuant to the ADA, you are encouraged to contact us at recruiting@allenai.org.

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 accrue sick days per year in line with Seattle sick time requirements and twelve paid holidays throughout the calendar year.

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.