Senior Software Engineer

The role

You will build and ship features for an AI research assistant. You will work across the full stack to build scalable, resilient, and maintainable systems.

What you will do

• Ship useful features to users on a weekly basis
• Work on known features, fixes, prototypes, and exploratory projects
• Make decisions and trade-offs to fulfill user needs
• Balance short term feature shipping with building extensible systems
• Ensure features in production are scalable, resilient, and easy to operate
• Contribute to discussions around UX, system design, and architecture

Required qualifications

• Strong technical aptitude across back-end and front-end
• Strong computer science fundamentals
• Professional experience contributing to software development teams at a mid-career to senior level
• Above-average communication skills
• Past experience or exposure to working with language models
• Experience writing asynchronous code
• Ability to think defensively about error handling

Benefits

• Flexible work environment
• Fully covered health, dental, vision, and life insurance
• Generous coverage for family (FSA/HSA)
• Flexible vacation policy with a recommendation of 20 days per year
• Company holidays
• $200 monthly wellbeing stipend
• 401K with a 6% employer match
• New Mac
• $1,000 budget to set up workstation or home office in first year
• $500 annual budget for workstation or home office thereafter
• $1,000 quarterly AI Experimentation & Learning budget
• Team administrative assistant

Before you apply

• Comfortable traveling for quarterly in-person offsites

About the company

Elicit is an AI research assistant that uses language models to help researchers figure out what is true and make better decisions. It is a scalable ML system based on human-understandable task decompositions.