Careers - Predoctoral Young Investigators program
Our Predoctoral Young Investigators program offers predoctoral candidates the opportunity to prepare for graduate-level research through partnership with strong mentors, participation in cutting-edge research, and co-authorship of papers at top venues. This program aims to position candidates for successful entry into a top graduate program. For potential candidates who are already enrolled in graduate studies, this program offers the opportunity to work with researchers at Ai2 on collaborative projects for the benefit of both Ai2’s initiatives and your thesis work.
Program Details
Duration: 1-3 years
Start Date: Flexible
Candidates: PYI Program candidates have graduated with a bachelor’s or master’s degree in a relevant field and are preparing to enter a PhD program in the next 1-2 years. We also welcome applications from candidates already enrolled in a PhD program who wish to align their work with Ai2’s endeavors, and we are happy to work on a case-by-case basis with regard to work arrangements if there is a mutual fit.
Benefits
- Gain strong research experience through direct collaboration with Ai2 researchers
- Co-author papers with Ai2 researchers and get published in top venues
- Learn about and leverage Ai2’s data, engineering infrastructure, and research tools
- Gain industry experience in a supportive, agile, mission-driven environment
- No grant writing, teaching, or administrative responsibilities required
- Assistance with graduate school vetting and application
- Generous travel budget
- Financial and legal support for visa acquisition
Program alumni
Isabel Cachola completed our PYI program in 2020, and then joined Johns Hopkins University as a PhD student in Computer Science.
Jaemin Cho finished our PYI program in 2020, and went on to join a PhD program in Computer Science at UNC-Chapel Hill.
Chris Clark completed our PYI program in 2015, and after earning a PhD from the University of Washington, he returned to Ai2 full-time.
Matthew Finlayson began a PhD program at the University of Southern California after completing our PYI program in 2023.
Suchin Gururangan completed our PYI program in 2020 and became a research scientist at Meta GenAI.
Hamish Ivison became a PhD student at the University of Washington after completing our PYI program in 2023.
Ananya Harsh Jha joined University of Washington as a PhD student after completing the PYI program in 2024.
Amita Kamath completed our PYI program in 2022, and became a PhD student in Computer Science at UCLA.
Apoorv Khandelwal completed our PYI program in 2022, and became a PhD student in Computer Science at Brown University.
Roie Levin became an assistant professor at Rutgers University's Department of Computer Science after completing our PYI program in 2017.
Jenny Liang became a PhD student at Carnegie Mellon University after completing our PYI program in 2022.
Kevin Lin completed our PYI program in 2019 and became a PhD student at UC Berkeley.
Haokun Liu completed our PYI program in 2021 and became a PhD student at the University of Toronto.
Chaitanya Malaviya completed our PYI program in 2020, and began studying as a PhD student at the University of Pennsylvania.
Will Merrill became a PhD student at NYI after completing our PYI program in 2021.
Oscar Michel became a Ph.D student at NYU after completing our PYI program in 2024.
Sonia Murthy became a PhD student at Harvard University after completing our PYI program in 2022.
Benjamin Newman became a PhD student at the University of Washington after completing our PYI program in 2023.
Sarah Pratt became a PhD student at the University of Washington after completing our PYI program in 2020.
Vivek Ramanujan completed our PYI program in 2020, and became a PhD student at the University of Washington.
Alexis Ross became a PhD student in Computer Science at MIT after completing our PYI program in 2022.
Jon Saad-Falcon completed our PYI program in 2022 and became a joint PhD and MBA student at Stanford University.
Noah Siegel became a research engineer at DeepMind after completing our PYI program in 2017.
Kunal Pratap Singh became a PhD student at EPFL in Switzerland after completing our PYI program in 2023.
Nishant Subramani became a PhD student at CMU in the Language Technologies Institute (LTI) after completing our PYI program in 2023.
Sanjay Subramanian completed our PYI program in 2021 and became a PhD student at UC Berkeley.
Mitchell Wortsman joined the pretraining team at Anthropic after completing our PYI program in 2020.
Zhaofeng Wu completed our PYI program in 2022 and became a PhD student at MIT CSAIL.