Elicit-posted 3 months ago
$195,000 - $320,000/Yr
Full-time • Senior
Oakland, CA
11-50 employees
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Elicit is an AI research assistant that uses language models to help researchers figure out what's true and make better decisions, starting with common research tasks like literature review. Elicit aims to radically increase the amount of good reasoning in the world, pushing the frontier forward for experts and making good reasoning more affordable for non-experts. The company is focused on building a scalable ML system based on human-understandable task decompositions, with supervision of process, not outcomes, to expand the collective understanding of safe AGI architectures.

  • Own backend implementation of the 'living document' to enhance user interactions with language models.
  • Build Elicit into a product researchers can't live without by shipping useful features weekly.
  • Work on a mix of known features/fixes, prototypes, and exploratory projects.
  • Maintain high quality standards for features in production, ensuring they are scalable, resilient, and easy to operate.
  • Contribute to discussions around system design, performance evaluation, and architecture.
  • Strong technical aptitude with a solid understanding of backend tech stack.
  • Genuine curiosity and enthusiasm for the capabilities of language models.
  • Defensive, fault-first mindset.
  • Above-average communication skills to convey complex engineering topics.
  • A sense of joy and craftsmanship in engineering work.
  • Experience with concurrency, fault-tolerance, and distributed systems.
  • Familiarity with Node, Python, Next.js, and TypeScript.
  • Experience with Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure.
  • Flexible work environment: work from the Oakland office or remotely.
  • Fully covered health, dental, vision, and life insurance for employees and generous family coverage.
  • Flexible vacation policy with a minimum recommendation of 20 days/year + company holidays.
  • 401K with a 6% employer match.
  • Budget for workstation setup and annual budget for AI experimentation and learning.
  • Access to a team administrative assistant for personal and work tasks.
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