Elicit
Frontend Engineer
Elicit, Oakland, California, United States, 94616
Join our small team to build an AI tool for science, already used by hundreds of thousands of researchers.Our mission is to scale up good reasoning for scientists and beyond. Elicit helps expert researchers push the frontier of what's possible in fields like biomedicine, health economics, and computer science.Our customers pay us to deliver truthful answers from language models in high-stakes situations like biomedical research. This means AI alignment is part of how we will be successful as a company.We're a small, talent-dense team. We ship a user-facing feature every week. Everyone takes ownership and we avoid letting egos or status games into the mix.We have an office in Oakland, CA, and team members spread across North America and Europe. We’re light on meetings and don’t micromanage your work.Elicit predates the AI bubble—we've been working on this since 2018. If you believe working with language models is a valuable career path, Elicit will be the best place to learn on the job.Why you might
not
love working here
While we’ve raised a $9 million seed round and are growing in revenue every month, we’re still a very early stage startup exploring our product market fit. That means projects and priorities will shift frequently. If you’re a person who loves a lot of clearly defined structure and certainty, this might not be the right time for you to join Elicit (yet).We’re a small team who loves to learn but if you need close mentorship, you might not find it here. We will support your growth, but at our stage, we need people who are excited to lead and direct their own learning, and who feel great about making impactful decisions daily.If having lots of direct reports is meaningful to you, you might not feel fulfilled at Elicit right away. We’re growing our team (sometimes painfully) slowly, which means we don’t expect new management layers to form any time soon. We embrace leadership and opportunities to teach your teammates what you know, but if your career goals include directly managing other humans, you should know your role might not move in that direction at Elicit.We are looking for people who excel in their wheelhouse, but who will also engage with and offer their perspective across different parts of the company. If you prefer to focus on your own lane, we’re probably not quite ready for you yet. We are building Elicit together, as a team, and need people who are comfortable dissenting and raising flags when we could do something better.Our values
Be GoodBe BoldBe Truth-SeekingBe HumanAbove all, we care about having a positive impact on the world.As a company, we:Work to steer AI towards positive impact by scaling up good reasoning.Chose to be a Public Benefit Corporation to declare to the world that we choose impact over short-term profit.Focus on building a product that actually improves people’s reasoning and research quality. We aim to hold higher standards for accuracy than our users do or ask for.As individuals, we:
Each care deeply about our own personal impact on the world. We all strive to leave the world better than it was, in our own personal way.Fully trust one another with large parts of the business and our work. When you know everybody else is accountable for their positive impact and ethical standards, it feels good to share the responsibility.Who you’ll work with
Our team has backgrounds and interests spanning research, academia, startups, engineering, and tools for thought. When we aren’t saving the world from AI catastrophe and the slow demise of the modern concept of truth, we are making music, gardening, baking elaborately layered desserts that take multiple days to complete, “vlogging” (sort of), and spending time with our cats.We’re backed by an outstanding group of investors, including deep tech seed fund
Fifty Years , with participation from
Basis Set ,
Illusian ,
Mythos ,
Julian Capital , and angel investors with expertise in AI & AI alignment, startups, and research, including Tom Preston-Werner, co-founder of Github, Arash Ferdowsi, co-founder of Dropbox, Thomas Ebeling, former CEO of Novartis, and Jeff Dean, Chief Scientist at Google.Automate time-consuming research tasks like summarizing papers, extracting data, and synthesizing your findings.
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not
love working here
While we’ve raised a $9 million seed round and are growing in revenue every month, we’re still a very early stage startup exploring our product market fit. That means projects and priorities will shift frequently. If you’re a person who loves a lot of clearly defined structure and certainty, this might not be the right time for you to join Elicit (yet).We’re a small team who loves to learn but if you need close mentorship, you might not find it here. We will support your growth, but at our stage, we need people who are excited to lead and direct their own learning, and who feel great about making impactful decisions daily.If having lots of direct reports is meaningful to you, you might not feel fulfilled at Elicit right away. We’re growing our team (sometimes painfully) slowly, which means we don’t expect new management layers to form any time soon. We embrace leadership and opportunities to teach your teammates what you know, but if your career goals include directly managing other humans, you should know your role might not move in that direction at Elicit.We are looking for people who excel in their wheelhouse, but who will also engage with and offer their perspective across different parts of the company. If you prefer to focus on your own lane, we’re probably not quite ready for you yet. We are building Elicit together, as a team, and need people who are comfortable dissenting and raising flags when we could do something better.Our values
Be GoodBe BoldBe Truth-SeekingBe HumanAbove all, we care about having a positive impact on the world.As a company, we:Work to steer AI towards positive impact by scaling up good reasoning.Chose to be a Public Benefit Corporation to declare to the world that we choose impact over short-term profit.Focus on building a product that actually improves people’s reasoning and research quality. We aim to hold higher standards for accuracy than our users do or ask for.As individuals, we:
Each care deeply about our own personal impact on the world. We all strive to leave the world better than it was, in our own personal way.Fully trust one another with large parts of the business and our work. When you know everybody else is accountable for their positive impact and ethical standards, it feels good to share the responsibility.Who you’ll work with
Our team has backgrounds and interests spanning research, academia, startups, engineering, and tools for thought. When we aren’t saving the world from AI catastrophe and the slow demise of the modern concept of truth, we are making music, gardening, baking elaborately layered desserts that take multiple days to complete, “vlogging” (sort of), and spending time with our cats.We’re backed by an outstanding group of investors, including deep tech seed fund
Fifty Years , with participation from
Basis Set ,
Illusian ,
Mythos ,
Julian Capital , and angel investors with expertise in AI & AI alignment, startups, and research, including Tom Preston-Werner, co-founder of Github, Arash Ferdowsi, co-founder of Dropbox, Thomas Ebeling, former CEO of Novartis, and Jeff Dean, Chief Scientist at Google.Automate time-consuming research tasks like summarizing papers, extracting data, and synthesizing your findings.
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