Frontend Engineer, Elicit
$135-185k
+ Equity
More information about location
AI research assistant
Open for applications
AI research assistant
1-20 employees
Open for applications
$135-185k
+ Equity
More information about location
1-20 employees
Company mission
To scale up good reasoning for scientists and beyond.
Role
Who you are
- Strong technical skills that will enable you to move comfortably around our tech stack, with strong computer science fundamentals. (For example, we expect you to be proficient with automated tests, CSS, HTML, Javascript, React, and TypeScript)
- At least a few years of professional experience contributing to software development teams and working on complex web apps. 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 technical 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
What the job involves
- You’ll work with a modern front-end stack (React, TypeScript, Chakra, Tailwind) to 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
- 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 be the biggest advocate for keeping Elicit’s bar high for smooth user workflows and making sure Elicit looks great and is a delight to use. We want somebody on our team who’ll remain obsessed with a high quality user experience, and can hold us accountable to balancing that with shipping rapidly and pursuing new features
- You’ll contribute to discussions around UX, system design, and architecture
Our take
Elicit, a tool born from the non-profit Ought, is dedicated to enhancing scientific research through machine learning. The platform automates research by finding relevant papers, extracting key information, and organizing it into concepts.
The platform's capabilities extend beyond simple paper searches to discovering broader concepts across studies. Researchers can ask detailed questions and receive organized responses from academic literature. This function saves time and enhances the quality of scientific inquiry, making Elicit an invaluable tool in the research community.
Now the company is setting its sights on launching a new version of its product, as well as expanding its team. A recent investment will help fuel these ambitions and underscore confidence in Elicit's potential, paving the way for continued growth and impact in advancing accessible research.
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Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Feb 2025
$22m
SERIES A
Sep 2023
$9m
SEED
Total funding: $31m
Company 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 travelling for in-person retreats and coworking events
- Flexible vacation policy, with a minimum recommendation of 20 days / year and plenty of company holidays
- Fully covered health, dental, vision, and life insurance for you, generous coverage for the rest of your family (FSA/HSA, too
- 401K with a 6% employer match
- $2,000 device budget to start, with more accumulating for each month of work
- $500 / year personal development budget
Company HQ
Downtown, Oakland, CA
Leadership
Andreas Stuhlmüller
(CEO)Graduated with a PhD in Cognitive Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Previously served as the CEO of Ought before co-founding Elicit.
Jungwon Byun
(COO)Co-founder and COO of Ought. Previously the Head of Growth at Upstart.
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