About the role

Senior Software Engineer enhancing Elicit, an AI research assistant. Focused on delivering impactful features and maintaining high quality in software for researchers.

Responsibilities

Build Elicit into a product researchers can’t live without
You’ll fully own shipping useful, exciting features out to users on a weekly basis.
You will work on a mix of known features / fixes, prototypes to validate ideas, and exploratory projects in between.
Our team is small, so we expect you to appreciate the user needs underlying everything you work on. You should be comfortable making decisions and trade-offs that help us fulfill users’ needs best.
Keep Elicit's bar for quality high
You’ll balance shipping features in the short term with building extensible and maintainable systems.
You will be responsible for your features in production: they need to be scalable, resilient, and easy to operate.
You’ll contribute to discussions around UX, system design, and architecture.
Projects you'll contribute to: You can view sample projects here.

Strong technical aptitude that allows you to move comfortably around our tech stack, both back-end and front-end, with strong computer science fundamentals.
Professional experience contributing to software development teams at a mid-career to senior level. We’re excited for you to unpack your past successes and build off your previous experience at Elicit!
Above-average communication skills. Elicit is a small, highly-collaborative team, so you’ll frequently be tapped to communicate complex engineering topics with stakeholders across the company.
Your past experience or exposure to working with language models. Because of the way language models work, you’re used to writing a lot of asynchronous code and thinking defensively about error handling.
A sense of joy in what you do. One thing we love about our team at Elicit is that everybody’s a craftsperson who cares deeply about their field.

Flexible work environment: work from our office in Oakland or remotely with time zone overlap (between GMT and GMT-8), as long as you’re comfortable traveling for quarterly in-person offsites
Fully covered health, dental, vision, and life insurance for you, generous coverage for the rest of your family (FSA/HSA, too)
Flexible vacation policy, with a minimum recommendation of 20 days / year and plenty of company holidays
401K with a 6% employer match
A new Mac + $1,000 budget to set up your workstation or home office in your first year, then $500 every year thereafter
$1,000 quarterly AI Experimentation & Learning budget, so you can freely experiment with new AI tools to incorporate into your workflow, take courses, purchase educational resources, or attend AI-focused conferences and events
A team administrative assistant who can help you with personal and work tasks
You can find more reasons to work with us in this thread!