Assistant Editor Jobs in Kent, WA (NOW HIRING)

Persons in these roles are expected to work from our offices in Seattle. On-site requirements vary based on position and team. If you have questions about on-site work arrangements for this role, please ask your recruiter.
Our base salary range is $92,880 - $139,320, and in addition we have generous bonus plans to provide a competitive compensation package.
Who You Are:
To thrive as an AI Editor at Ai2, you'll bring a blend of sharp editorial judgment and genuine curiosity about how language models work. You have 5+ years of experience as an editor, content strategist, technical writer, or content developer, and you've applied that background to human-in-the-loop AI evaluation, prompt engineering, or model quality assessment. You write and communicate with precision, you enjoy translating fuzzy, high-level guidelines into language a model can act on, and you're comfortable context-switching across partners in Product, Research, and Engineering. You're energized by fast-moving, ambiguous environments and enjoy owning quality end-to-end - from style guide to shipped model behavior.
Who We Are:
We are a non-profit AI institute focused on developing foundational AI research and innovation to deliver real-world positive impact through large-scale open models, data, and artifacts (e.g., Olmo, Tulu, Molmo, FlexOlmo). Balancing academic freedom with corporate-level scale (read about our new compute cluster here), Ai2 is uniquely resourced and positioned to deliver high-impact, truly open research. Our team unites the best and brightest scientific, engineering, and editorial minds to explore the potential of truly open AI. Through our efforts, we endeavor to empower academics, researchers, and AI developers more broadly to advance the science of language models, multimodal models, and generative AI.
If you are passionate about advancing the science of AI through open, rigorous research and believe in accessible AI for the common good, we want to hear from you!
Your Next Challenge:

• Translate complex content and safety policies into prompts and guidelines that models can reliably follow, ensuring alignment with product and research priorities
• Improve model fluency, tone, and quality through human-in-the-loop evaluations and LLM-judge audits
• Develop and apply novel prompting approaches to support feature development and reduce model defects
• Create high-quality alignment data to train and fine-tune models for product-specific use cases
• Identify potential biases or limitations in model outputs and work with research partners on fine-tuning strategies to address them
• Build and maintain quality, style, and tone guidelines, and use user feedback to continually improve model helpfulness
• Become a subject matter expert across sensitive topic areas and content policies relevant to the product
• Partner across Product, Research, and Design to evaluate quality metrics and build scalable reporting systems for continual model improvement

What You'll Need:

• Bachelors Degree or 5+ years of equivalent experience as an editor, content strategist, technical writer, or content developer
• Experience with human-in-the-loop AI evaluation, prompt engineering, or AI model quality assessment
• Exceptional written and oral communication skills, with strong editorial judgment
• Strong project management skills and comfort managing workload under tight deadlines or escalated activity
• Deep curiosity about how language models work and a passion for user experience
• Comfort context-switching and partnering at all levels of the organization to deliver results

Preferred:

• Experience leading cross-functional teams to deliver products and projects on tight deadlines
• Experience in content creation or copy editing, including online publishing
• Experience working in fast-paced, startup-like environments

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.

• 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.

A Little More About Ai2:
Ai2 is a Seattle based non-profit AI research institute founded in 2014 by the late Paul Allen. Our mission is building breakthrough AI to solve the world's biggest problems. We develop foundational AI research and innovation to deliver real-world impact through large-scale open models, data, robotics, conservation, and beyond.
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.