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Elicit is an AI research assistant that uses language models to help researchers figure out what’s true and make better decisions, starting with common research tasks like literature review.
What we're aiming for:
Elicit radically increases the amount of good reasoning in the world. For experts, Elicit pushes the frontier forward. For non-experts, Elicit makes good reasoning more affordable. People who don't have the tools, expertise, time, or mental energy to make well-reasoned decisions on their own can do so with Elicit.
For experts, Elicit pushes the frontier forward.
For non-experts, Elicit makes good reasoning more affordable. People who don't have the tools, expertise, time, or mental energy to make well-reasoned decisions on their own can do so with Elicit.
Elicit is a scalable ML system based on human-understandable task decompositions, with supervision of process, not outcomes . This expands our collective understanding of safe AGI architectures.
Visit our Twitter to learn more about how Elicit is helping researchers and making progress on our mission.
Since launching the newest version of Elicit last fall, response has been strong. We introduced Elicit Plus, our monthly subscription plan, and added thousands of paying users in a matter of months as well as hundreds of thousands of new sign-ups. This has been energizing for our team, but we want to ship more useful functionality to our users even faster. We want to add another strong senior-level engineer to our team who’ll help us meet the demand for new features and improved performance.
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.
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Oakland, USA
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.
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.
You can view sample projects here.
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. We’re excited for you to unpack your past successes and build off your previous experience at Elicit!
Above-average communication skills. Elicit is a small, highly-collaborative team, so you’ll frequently be tapped to communicate complex engineering topics with stakeholders across the company.
Your past experience or exposure to working with language models. Because of the way language models work, you’re used to writing a lot of asynchronous code and thinking defensively about error handling.
A sense of joy in what you do. One thing we love about our team at Elicit is that everybody’s a craftsperson who cares deeply about their field.
Backend: Node and Python
Frontend: Next.js, TypeScript, and Tailwind
We like static type checking in Python and TypeScript
All infrastructure runs in Kubernetes across a couple of clouds
We use GitHub for code reviews and CI
Consider these questions:
What are a couple of different ways to write concurrent code in Python?
What are the differences between var , let , and const in JavaScript?
What are a couple of different web technologies to asynchronously send data from a server to a client?
In which situations would you use REST vs. GraphQL vs. RPC?
Strong applicants will find it easy to answer these questions.
AI research assistant for automated literature review and analysis.
Visit company websiteJobs and hiring trendsUSD 185000-305000 yearly / year
Full-time
Senior
Hybrid
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