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 make better decisions. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to own hard problems across the stack, ship new functionality quickly, and help scale the infrastructure behind their rapidly growing product.

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
• Every Elician receives a $200 monthly wellbeing stipend to spend on whatever supports your health and wellbeing.
• 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

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