Senior Software Engineer

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.

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

Requirements:

• 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