3 hours ago
Remote, United States or Oakland, CA, USASenior
Base Salary
$185k - $305k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own Elicit’s scholarly search and data platform, including its coverage, freshness, quality, reliability, and cost.
- Bring new evidence sources into Elicit and make them useful for LLM-based research features while preserving structure, citations, and provenance.
- Build secure, rights-aware integrations for enterprise customers and content partners, addressing access, privacy, isolation, and auditability.
- Develop and ship features across frontend, backend, and data layers from initial brief through production.
- Operate shipped systems through staged rollouts, monitoring, rollback plans, and ongoing reliability and complexity management.
- Work on broader product features and make the data platform easier for other engineers to use.
- Use coding agents productively while reviewing their output carefully and remaining hands-on for high-stakes work.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering experience, including ownership of production systems and architecture decisions.
- Strong Python skills, working knowledge of TypeScript, and preferably React experience.
- Experience designing, debugging, and tuning distributed data pipelines; Spark experience is especially useful.
- Solid SQL knowledge and practical understanding of partitioning, joins, columnar formats, and data layout impacts on performance and cost.
- Experience integrating messy external data through APIs, bulk exports, file drops, changing schemas, rate limits, partial failures, and overlapping records.
- Care for data quality, entity resolution, provenance, observability, and failure planning.
- Experience shipping user-facing features end to end, not only backend systems.
- Product judgment and ability to connect infrastructure work to researcher-facing capabilities.
- At least one year at an early- or growth-stage company where you shaped the work.
- Clear communication with technical and nontechnical stakeholders and ability to explain trade-offs.
- Practical coding-agent experience that improves speed without reducing quality.
Benefits
- Flexible work from the Oakland office or remotely with time-zone overlap between GMT and GMT-8, with quarterly in-person retreats and travel required for offsites.
- Fully covered health, dental, vision, and life insurance for the employee, with family coverage plus FSA/HSA options.
- Flexible vacation policy with a recommended minimum of 20 days per year and company holidays.
- $200 monthly wellbeing stipend.
- 401(k) with a 6% employer match.
- New Mac and a $1,000 first-year workstation or home-office budget, followed by $500 annually.
- $1,000 quarterly AI experimentation and learning budget.
- Team administrative assistant support.
- Above-market equity with employee-friendly 10-year exercise periods.
Tech Stack
Categories
Data EngineeringFull Stack
About Elicit
Elicit builds an AI research assistant that automates literature review tasks such as paper summarization, data extraction, and evidence synthesis for scientists, analysts, and decision-makers. It offers a SaaS platform with enterprise contracts and single-tenant deployments, used for high-stakes evidence synthesis in sectors including pharma. Founded in 2023 and headquartered in Oakland, CA, the privately held public benefit company emphasizes reliable, scalable infrastructure for large language model workloads.