Software Engineer II, Front-End

Remote eligible : Persons in these roles are welcome to work remotely from any location.

Who You Are :

You are a software engineer who enjoys building web applications. You like thinking about how to make sites that are easy to use, fast, and accessible. You're someone who thrives in a small, dynamic organization where there can sometimes be large amounts of ambiguity and autonomy. You're self-directed and enjoy working independently while still having fun technical conversations with your team to determine the best route forward. A key interest you have is in extending our public web presence at allenai.org. If you would like to collaborate with us to implement ideas around communicating our work to the greater world we would love to talk to you.

You're interested in being the resident expert in building for the web. Your focus will be on the front-end, working in technologies like JavaScript, HTML and CSS. There will be an opportunity to work on the supporting back-end services, deployment infrastructure and other tooling as well - but this is a potential growth area and not something we'll assess in the interview or expect of you.

Your Next Challenge :

You will collaborate with our communications team, researchers, and engineers to present our institute clearly to the outside world. You will also work with the rest of the team to develop demos for research applications and internal tools to help us organize and present our research. For example, your next challenge might be building a website to highlight the impact of the Aristo research project, building a portal to present our fundraising strategy as a nonprofit organization, or partnering with other engineers to build infrastructure that organizes our research datasets and publications.

What You'll Need :

• A strong interest and focus on user experience.
• 2+ years of industry experience building high quality web applications
• Fluency in JavaScript, CSS and HTML.
• Interest or experience using TypeScript, React, Next.js, and Webpack. While we don't require familiarity with these technologies, you should expect to gain expertise in them at AI2.
• A solid understanding of the mechanics of a web browser, the differences between server-side and client execution, and the basics of the HTTP protocol.
• Experience parenting directly with product and design to develop websites.
• A basic understanding of UNIX development tools like git and bash, and an understanding of how programming languages like Go and Python different from JavaScript.

Who We Are :

The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence is a non-profit research institute in Seattle founded by Paul Allen and headed by Professor Oren Etzioni. 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 :

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.