Elicit
Frontend Engineer
Oakland, CA (or remote within US timezones) · Senior
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 1050 days ago
JavaScriptTypeScriptReactNext.jsHTMLCSSTailwind CSSMachine LearningA/B TestingResearch
About the role
- 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.
- Elicit is a small, highly-collaborative team, so you'll frequently be tapped to communicate technical engineering topics with stakeholders across the company.
Responsibilities
- Build Elicit into a product researchers can't live without
- 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.
- You'll balance shipping features in the short term with building extensible and maintainable systems.
- You'll contribute to discussions around UX, system design, and architecture.
- 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!
Requirements
- Our team is small, so we expect you to appreciate the user needs underlying everything you work on.
- You can view some sample projects here. https://airtable.com/app9at9MxvT5VQbss/shr4pKwXUX3npy1vn
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.
Compensation
- For all roles at Elicit, we use a data-backed compensation framework to keep salaries market-competitive, equitable, and simple to understand. For this role, we're targeting starting ranges of:
- We're optimizing for a hire who can contribute at a L3/career-level or above.
Benefits
- Fully covered health, dental, vision, and life insurance for you, generous coverage for the rest of your family (FSA/HSA, too)
- Flexible vacation policy, with a minimum recommendation of 20 days / year and plenty of company holidays
- Every Elician receives a $200 monthly wellbeing stipend to expense, to spend on whatever supports your health and wellbeing.
- A new Mac + $1,000 budget to set up your workstation or home office in your first year, then $500 every year thereafter
- $170-209k + equity
- $200-260k + equity
Company info
- 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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