AI Engineer

What you'll own

• Backend implementation of our "living document"
  • Work on, curate, extend, and improve the backend part of that technology. This is fascinating and challenging distributed systems work.
• Building Elicit into a product researchers can’t live without
  • Ship useful, exciting features out to users on a weekly basis. Focus on the code which exists between the BFF endpoints and the ML models we use.
  • Work on a mix of known features / fixes, prototypes to validate ideas, and exploratory projects in between.
• Keeping Elicit’s bar for quality high
  • Balance shipping features in the short term with building extensible and maintainable systems.
  • Responsible for your features in production: they need to be scalable, resilient, and easy to operate.
  • Contribute to discussions around system design, performance evaluation, and architecture.

What you bring to the role

• Strong technical aptitude that allows you to move comfortably around our back-end tech stack, with strong computer science fundamentals.
• Genuine curiosity and enthusiasm for the capabilities of language models.
• Defensive, fault-first mindset.
• Above-average communication skills.
• Sense of joy in what you do.

Compensation, benefits, and perks

• Flexible work environment: work from our office in Oakland or remotely with time zone overlap (between GMT and GMT-8), as long as you can travel for in-person retreats and coworking events
• Fully covered health, dental, vision, and life insurance for you, generous coverage for the rest of your family
• Flexible vacation policy, with a minimum recommendation of 20 days/year + 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