AI Engineer

Join our small team to build an AI tool for science, already used by hundreds of thousands of researchers.

Our mission is to scale up good reasoning for scientists and beyond. Elicit helps expert researchers push the frontier of what's possible in fields like biomedicine, health economics, and computer science.

Our customers pay us to deliver truthful answers from language models in high-stakes situations like biomedical research. This means AI alignment is part of how we will be successful as a company.

We're small, talent-dense team. We ship a user-facing feature every week. Everyone takes ownership and we avoid letting egos or status games into the mix.

We have an office in Oakland, CA, and team members spread across North America and Europe. We’re light on meetings and don’t micromanage your work.

Elicit predates the AI bubble—we've been working on this since 2018. If you believe working with language models is a valuable career path, Elicit will be the best place to learn on the job.

As individuals we have diverse interests and are involved in communities like 80,000 Hours, tools for thought, and web novels. At our last team dinner we discussed outdoor sports, phobias, and how AI can help elderly people.

We reached $1 million in annual recurring revenue four months after activating subscriptions. We’re financed by $9 million in venture capital.

Elicit began in a research lab, with grand ambitions and a long time horizon. We're a Public Benefit Company, ensuring long-term good for the world even as we turn a profit.

Our values

Be Good

Be Bold

Be Truth-Seeking

Be Human

Above all, we care about having a positive impact on the world.

As a company, we:

• Work to steer AI towards positive impact by scaling up good reasoning.
• Chose to be a Public Benefit Corporation to declare to the world that we choose impact over short-term profit.
• Focus on building a product that actually improves people’s reasoning and research quality. We aim to hold higher standards for accuracy than our users do or ask for.

• Each care deeply about our own personal impact on the world. We all strive to leave the world better than it was, in our own personal way.
• Fully trust one another with large parts of the business and our work. When you know everybody else is accountable for their positive impact and ethical standards, it feels good to share the responsibility.

Who you’ll work with

Our team has backgrounds and interests spanning research, academia, startups, engineering, and tools for thought. When we aren’t saving the world from AI catastrophe and the slow demise of the modern concept of truth, we are making music, gardening, baking elaborately layered desserts that take multiple days to complete, “vlogging” (sort of), and spending time with our cats.

We’re backed by an outstanding group of investors, including deep tech seed fund Fifty Years , with participation from Basis Set , Illusian , Mythos , Julian Capital , and angel investors with expertise in AI & AI alignment, startups, and research, including Tom Preston-Werner, co-founder of Github, Arash Ferdowsi, co-founder of Dropbox, Thomas Ebeling, former CEO of Novartis, and Jeff Dean, Chief Scientist at Google.

Automate time-consuming research tasks like summarizing papers, extracting data, and synthesizing your findings.