Machine Learning Engineer

The role

You will build products and workflows that help researchers and scientific teams make higher quality decisions with language models. The work involves software engineering, including building product experiences, APIs, data integrations, and evaluation systems.

What you will do

• Build agentic harnesses for target assessment, evidence synthesis, and experiment planning
• Create data integrations across literature, scientific databases, customer data, and internal tools
• Develop APIs for customers to use in their own systems
• Build evaluation systems to understand user outcome improvements
• Develop trust and transparency features like source-quality signals and intermediate reasoning
• Build target-assessment workflows combining multiple data types
• Build experiment-planning and iteration tools
• Build evidence-monitoring workflows
• Build enterprise APIs and structured-output pipelines
• Improve extraction, reasoning, or search quality through prompting, system design, or finetuning

Required qualifications

• Strong software engineering background to build end-to-end systems
• Fluency with language models regarding prompting, retrieval, evals, and failure modes
• Strong product sense
• Ability to move across backend, data, and model layers
• Clear communication with product, design, domain experts, and other engineers
• Ability to use coding assistants effectively and thoughtfully

Nice to have

• Excitement to solve difficult, creative problems
• Like shipping user-facing things quickly
• Enjoy working on ambiguous problems with a lot of autonomy
• Care about product quality and user trust
• Want to build new kinds of software made possible by language models
• Excited to use AI tools as part of daily engineering workflow

Benefits

• Flexible work environment
• Fully covered health, dental, vision, and life insurance
• Flexible vacation policy with a recommendation of 20 days/year plus company holidays
• 401K with a 6% employer match
• $200 monthly wellbeing stipend
• New Mac plus $1,000 workstation/home office budget in first year, then $500 annually
• $1,000 quarterly AI Experimentation & Learning budget
• Team administrative assistant
• Commuter benefits
• Relocation bonus

About the company

Elicit is building the reasoning layer for science and decision-making using language models to search over 125 million papers and surface insights.