Elicit is the AI research assistant. We uselanguage models to help researchers figure out what's true and make better decisions, starting with common research tasks like literature review.
Compensation
This role offers $195-250K + equity, depending on your level. We're seeking a L4/senior-level or above contributor.
Elicit is the AI research assistant. We uselanguage models to help researchers figure out what's true and make better decisions, starting with common research tasks like literature review.
- Elicit radically increases the amount of good reasoning in the world.
- For experts, Elicit pushes the frontier forward.
- For non-experts, Elicit makes good reasoning more affordable. People who don't have the tools, expertise, time, or mental energy to make well-reasoned decisions on their own can do so with Elicit.
- Elicit is a scalable ML system based on human-understandable task decompositions, withsupervision of process, not outcomes . This expands our collective understanding of safe AGI architectures.
OurTwitter page shows how Elicit helps researchers today. Ourroadmap outlines our vision for how Elicit impacts more than research in the future.
About the role
As an ML research engineer at Elicit, you will:
- Compose together tens to thousands of calls to language models to accomplish tasks that we can't accomplish with a single call.
- Curate datasets for finetuning models, e.g. for training models to extract policy conclusions from papers
- Set up evaluation metrics that tell us what changes to our models or training setup are improvements
- Scale up semantic search from a few thousand documents to 100k+ documents
About you
To help us get there, you'll need:
- A strong software engineering background. We want to apply your experience building systems, designing architecture, and thinking about good abstractions. Elicit will need you to do much more than write scripts.
- Familiarity with language models (training, finetuning, evaluation), or comparable machine learning or natural language processing background (e.g. experience with information extraction, semantic search)
- A startup mindset. We expect to measure our impact in part by the people whose lives we improve through reasoning and models of the future. We know you care about that too. You’ll want to test lots of ideas, get feedback, and watch yourself learning and growing every day.
To get a sense for how some of us look at applications, seethis thread . (The short version: Wherever we can we prefer to directly evaluate work.)
Strong applicants will find it easy to answer these questions.
In addition to working on important problems as part of a happy, productive, and positive team, we also offer great benefits (with some variation based on work location):
- Flexible work environment - work from our office in Oakland or remotely as long as you can travel to work in-person for retreats and coworking events
- Fully covered health, dental, vision, and life insurance for you, generous coverage for the rest of your family
- Flexible vacation policy, with a minimum recommendation of 20 days/year + company holidays
- 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
- A team administrative assistant that you can delegate personal and work tasks to
- Commuter benefits, a relocation bonus, and more!
For all roles at Elicit, we use a data-backed compensation framework to make sure our salaries are market-competitive, equitable, and simple.
- This role starts between $195-250K + equity, depending on your level. We're optimizing for a hire who can contribute at a L4/senior-level or above. For this role, we're very open to hearing from staff/principal level contributors.