AI Engineer

Elicit

full-time

Posted on: 3/27/2026

Location Type: Remote

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💰 $195,000 - $285,000 per year

About the role

Backend implementation of our "living document"
Building Elicit into a product researchers can’t live without
Keeping Elicit’s bar for quality high
You’ll contribute to discussions around system design, performance evaluation, and architecture.

Strong technical aptitude that allows you to move comfortably around our back-end tech stack, with strong computer science fundamentals
A genuine curiosity and enthusiasm for the capabilities of language models
A defensive, fault-first mindset
Above-average communication skills. Elicit is a small, highly-collaborative team, so you’ll frequently be tapped to communicate complex engineering topics with stakeholders across the company
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 can travel for in-person 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
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

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Hard Skills & Tools

backend implementationsystem designperformance evaluationarchitecturecomputer science fundamentals

Soft Skills

communication skillscollaborationcuriosityenthusiasmdefensive mindset