Elicit
AI Engineer
Oakland, CA (or remote within US timezones) · Principal
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 771 days ago
JavaScriptTypeScriptPythonNext.jsNode.jsDistributed SystemsCode ReviewGitKubernetesCI/CDMachine LearningNLPLLMsA/B TestingProduct ManagementResearchCommunication
About the role
- 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.
- Elicit is a small, highly-collaborative team, so you'll frequently be tapped to communicate complex engineering topics with stakeholders across the company.
Responsibilities
- You'll contribute to discussions around system design, performance evaluation, and architecture.
- With the context you've gained, you're able to implement changes independently and you're comfortable making big, impactful decisions in the course of your work.
Nice to have
- 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.
- Elicit is a scalable ML system based on human-understandable task decompositions, with supervision of process, not outcomes https://ought.org/updates/2022-04-06-process.
- This expands our collective understanding of safe AGI architectures.
Skills
- from frontend UX to infrastructure.
Benefits
- 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
- A new Mac + $1,000 budget to set up your workstation or home office in your first year, then $500 every year thereafter
- $195-285k + equity
- $220-320k + equity
- >$265 + significant equity
- We offer above-market equity for all roles at Elicit, as well as employee-friendly equity terms.
Company info
- You'll get to know our company documentation and other supporting resources like Supporting Process, not Outcomes https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/pYcFPMBtQveAjcSfH/supervise-process-not-outcomes.
- Within your first quarter, we expect that there's a part of Elicit you'll become the domain expert for that others reach out to for support when working in this area.
- In addition to working on important problems as part of a productive and positive team, we also offer great benefits (with some variation based on location):
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