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AI Engineer

Elicit· Engineering
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Oakland, CA (or remote within US timezones)$195k - $260kFull-timePosted 11mo ago

About the role

AI engineer role at Elicit focusing on backend and ML model orchestration to deliver rich, AI-powered product experiences. Responsible for building and maintaining the backend components that sit between the frontend and ML models, contributing to system design, performance, and reliability.

Responsibilities

  • - Backend implementation of our "living document" and related features that power richer LLM-driven experiences.
  • - Build, curate, extend, and improve the backend technology underpinning Elicit’s AI/ML workflow.
  • - Ship features between BFF endpoints and ML models; work on known features, prototypes, and exploratory projects.
  • - Maintain scalable, resilient, and operable production features; participate in system design discussions and performance evaluations.

Skills

Required:Backend developmentDistributed systemsConcurrency and fault-tolerance

Benefits

  • - Flexible work environment (Oakland office or remote within US timezones).
  • - Health, dental, vision, and life insurance fully covered for employee; generous coverage for family.
  • - Flexible vacation policy (minimum 20 days/year) + holidays.
  • - $200 monthly wellbeing stipend.
  • - 401K with 6% employer match.
  • - Mac computer + $1,000 workstation setup budget in first year, plus $500 annually.
  • - $1,000 quarterly AI Experimentation & Learning budget.
  • - Team administrative assistant.
  • - Additional reasons to work with the team provided via company thread.
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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