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Elicit · 3 days ago

Senior Software Engineer

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level

$185K/yr - $305K/yr

Elicit is an AI research assistant that helps researchers make better decisions. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help ship new features and improve performance, ensuring high-quality software that meets user needs.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Data Center AutomationDatabaseInformation Technology

Growth Opportunities

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

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

Qualification

NodePythonNext.jsTypeScriptKubernetesAsynchronous codeCommunication skillsProblem-solvingTeam collaborationAttention to detail

Required

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