3 hours ago
Remote, United States or Oakland, CA, USASenior / Staff+
Base Salary
$185k - $320k/yr
Responsibilities
- Understand user and domain-expert decision problems, including objectives, constraints, evidence, and unknowns.
- Define and measure good reasoning through evaluations combining example inspection, expert judgment, and quantitative analysis.
- Investigate model and agent failures, develop testable improvement hypotheses, and experiment with decomposition, context, tools, information seeking, and self-checking.
- Design reliable software abstractions, data structures, and component boundaries for reasoning workflows and evaluations.
- Write maintainable code, participate in design and code reviews, test and monitor changes, and integrate systems into the product.
- Design agent environments and representations for evidence, assumptions, unresolved questions, and decision-making processes.
Requirements
- Demonstrated rigorous thinking about ambiguous problems, hidden assumptions, conflicting evidence, and uncertainty.
- Curiosity across domains and ability to learn from specialists and communicate with people of different expertise.
- Strong experimental judgment, including designing evaluations without established benchmarks and distinguishing meaningful evidence from noise.
- Ability to independently write and debug code, work with data and model APIs, and take experiments into maintained codebases.
- Comfort with Python or a comparable programming language.
- Practical familiarity with language models and their capabilities and limitations.
- Strong software design and architectural judgment, including experience building understandable and extensible systems.
- Effective use of coding assistants while taking responsibility for design understanding and verification.
- Evidence of substantial projects, thoughtful experiments, and clear explanations of technical decisions is valued.
Benefits
- Flexible work from the Oakland office or remotely, with travel for quarterly retreats and coworking events.
- Fully covered health, dental, vision, and life insurance for the employee, with family coverage and 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 plus a $1,000 first-year workstation or home-office budget and $500 annually thereafter.
- $1,000 quarterly AI experimentation and learning budget.
- Team administrative assistant support.
- Equity is offered for all roles, with employee-friendly equity terms.
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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.