Research Internship, AI for Neuroscience
The Allen Institute · Seattle, WA
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### Research Internship, AI for Neuroscience **Location / Work Model** - Expected to work from our offices in **Seattle** (on-site requirements vary by position/team). If you have questions, ask your recruiter. **Compensation (dependent on current degree enrollment)** - **Undergrad Research Intern:** $94,320 (Annually) - **Masters Research Intern:** $106,110 (Annually) - **PhD Research Intern:** $140,000 (Annually) --- ### Who You Are - Passionate about **AI** and its potential to **accelerate science**. - Interested in building **agentic workflows** that meet the standards of rigorous scientific work. - Able to evaluate whether **AI-generated hypotheses/causal claims** are scientifically sound against underlying biology. - Welcome applications from candidates trained in **neuroscience** or another **life science** with strong computational skills. **About the Asta Project** - Ai2’s **Asta** project aims to rapidly advance science through AI research assistants, literature understanding/synthesis, end-to-end discovery, human-AI interaction, intelligent interfaces, data-driven discovery, and agents that learn over time. - Work includes evaluation/benchmarking of agents and methods for training agentic models. **Research Context** - Collaboration with research scientists at the Allen Institute and elsewhere using primary data including **electrophysiology**, **single-cell**, and **spatial transcriptomic** measurements of human brain tissue. --- ### Internship Topics (examples) - Agentic planning, reasoning, learning, and evaluation - AI workflows for scientific discovery - Data-driven discovery (integrating your own or public sequencing/electrophysiology datasets with AI workflows) - Evaluation of AI-generated hypotheses, causal claims, and analyses against experimental data and domain expertise - AI workflows incorporating scientific literature and automated hypothesis generation/testing **Publications / More Examples** - https://allenai.org/papers?tags=Asta --- ### Timing - **Duration:** 12 weeks - **Start Date:** Flexible - For full consideration for **summer 2027** start dates: **please apply by December 1, 2026** (first round of reviews). --- ### Who We’re Looking For (What You’ll Need) - Currently enrolled in a **PhD program** in neuroscience, biology, or a related life science, **or** a computational discipline with biological research experience. - Demonstrated independent experience performing and integrating biological research and computational analysis (reference publication, preprint, thesis chapter, code repo, or dataset; peer-reviewed publication not required). - Familiarity with **Python**, using AI agents for scientific data analysis (e.g., Claude Code / Claude for Science / Asta / Codex), and building **reproducible analysis pipelines**. - Familiarity with analysis of **primary experimental data**, including assessing data quality and working within limitations. --- ### Your Next Challenge Research interns will have the opportunity to: - Conduct high-impact research and author scientific papers for publication in high-profile computing and scientific venues - Collaborate with and learn from an Ai2 mentor and team members across Ai2 (including scientists and engineers) --- ### Who We Are (Ai2) - The **Asta Research Team** (Semantic Scholar and Aristo based in Seattle) at the **Allen Institute for AI (Ai2)** focuses on AI, HCI, ML, and NLP to accelerate science with intelligent, interactive research assist
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