[Remote] Senior Software Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Elicit is an AI research assistant that uses language models to help researchers figure out what’s true and make better decisions. In this role, you will help build and improve a product that researchers rely on by shipping new features and maintaining high-quality standards.
Responsibilities
- Build Elicit into a product researchers can’t live without
- You’ll fully own shipping useful, exciting features out to users on a weekly basis
- You will work on a mix of known features / fixes, prototypes to validate ideas, and exploratory projects in between
- Our team is small, so we expect you to appreciate the user needs underlying everything you work on
- You should be comfortable making decisions and trade-offs that help us fulfill users’ needs best
- Keep Elicit's bar for quality high
- You’ll balance shipping features in the short term with building extensible and maintainable systems
- You will be responsible for your features in production: they need to be scalable, resilient, and easy to operate
- You’ll contribute to discussions around UX, system design, and architecture
Skills
- Strong technical aptitude that allows you to move comfortably around our tech stack, both back-end and front-end, with strong computer science fundamentals
- Professional experience contributing to software development teams at a mid-career to senior level
- Above-average communication skills
- Your past experience or exposure to working with language models
- A sense of joy in what you do
Benefits
- Flexible work environment: work from our office in Oakland or remotely with time zone overlap (between GMT and GMT-8), as long as you’re comfortable traveling for quarterly in-person offsites
- Fully covered health, dental, vision, and life insurance for you, generous coverage for the rest of your family (FSA/HSA, too)
- Flexible vacation policy, with a minimum recommendation of 20 days / year and plenty of 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, so you can freely experiment with new AI tools to incorporate into your workflow, take courses, purchase educational resources, or attend AI-focused conferences and events
- A team administrative assistant who can help you with personal and work tasks
- We offer above-market equity for all roles at Elicit, as well as employee-friendly equity terms
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