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Machine Learning Engineer

Elicit· Engineering
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Oakland, CA (or remote within US timezones)$185k - $220kFull-timePosted 11mo ago

About the role

Machine Learning Engineer at Elicit building products and workflows that help researchers and scientific teams make higher quality decisions with language models, blending software engineering with ML to create trustworthy, user-focused experiences.

Responsibilities

  • Turning messy, ambiguous research tasks into clear product experiences
  • Building interfaces and artifacts that help users understand, trust, and act on model outputs, thinking beyond the chat interface while leveraging full model capabilities
  • Combining language models with external tools, structured and unstructured data, and retrieval systems
  • Improving quality through building careful evaluations, truth-conducive model environments and tools, and targeted ML modeling where the impact is high

Qualifications

  • A strong software engineering background and can build end-to-end systems, not just scripts or notebooks
  • Fluency with language models to reason well about prompting, retrieval, evals, failure modes, and where (and how) finetuning is or isn’t worth it
  • Strong product sense and likes turning fuzzy user problems into concrete things people can use
  • An excitement to solve difficult, creative problems rather than narrow optimization on well-defined benchmarks
  • Ability to move across backend, data, and model layers as needed
  • Clear communication with product, design, domain experts, and other engineers
  • Ability to use coding assistants effectively and thoughtfully, and has adapted their workflow to become much more effective with them

Skills

Required:Software engineering (end-to-end systems)Language models and promptingProduct thinkingCross-layer collaborationCommunication

Benefits

  • 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
  • $200 monthly wellbeing stipend
  • Mac + $1,000 budget to set up workstation/home office in first year, then $500 yearly thereafter
  • $1,000 quarterly AI Experimentation & Learning budget
  • A team administrative assistant for personal and work tasks
  • Commuter benefits, relocation bonus, and more
Last updated Jul 15, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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AI for scientific research

Use AI to search, summarize, extract data from, and chat with over 125 million papers. Used by over 2 million researchers in academia and industry.

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