Front-End Software Engineer - Los Angeles, United States - Elicit

Description

About Elicit

Elicit is an AI research assistant that uses language models to help researchers figure out what's true and make better decisions, starting with common research tasks like literature review.

Our mission is to automate and scale open-ended reasoning.

As we work toward this mission, we aim for Elicit to:
1) Radically increase the amount of good reasoning in the world.
For experts, Elicit pushes the frontier forward.
For non-experts, Elicit makes good reasoning more affordable.

People who don't have the tools, expertise, time, or mental energy to make well-reasoned decisions on their own can do so with Elicit.

2) Expand our collective understanding of safe AGI architectures.
Elicit is a scalable ML system based on human-understandable task decompositions, with supervision of process, not outcomes ).
You can learn more about how Elicit helps researchers today on Twitter (@elicitorg)
About the role

You're responsible for:
Shipping exciting features to our users
Appreciating the user needs underlying a proposed piece of work.
Contributing to discussions around design / UX / system architecture.
Balancing shipping features in the short term with building extensible and maintainable systems.
Quickly prototyping new ideas.
Taking on ownership of maintaining and building out systems to keep development flowing.
Stepping into work and decisions that might be out of your comfort zone.
About the work
You'll be working with a modern frontend stack (React, TypeScript, Chakra, Tailwind).

You'll be part of a small, fast-paced team: crossing boundaries to other parts of the work will often be the best way to get things done.

You will be working on a mix of known features / fixes, prototypes to validate ideas, and semi-nebulous projects in between.

About you

There is no particular amount of experience we're looking for in this role: we are open to recent graduates all the way to people with 10+ years of experience, although we expect that the typical person to fill this role will 3+ years of experience.

An ideal team-mate for this role:
Will thrive in an environment with quick iterations and a tight feedback loop.
Is motivated by shipping valuable tools to users.
Wants for their work to have a positive social impact.
Is excited to teach and learn from others.
Is comfortable owning decisions.
Why you'll love working at Elicit
In addition to working on important problems as part of a happy, productive, and positive team, we also offer great benefits (with some variation based on work location):
Fully covered health, dental, vision, and life insurance
Flexible Spending Accounts with company matching
Unlimited vacation days, with a minimum recommendation of 20 days off per year
401K matching program, matching up to 6% of an employee contributions
$2,000 device budget to start, with more accumulating for each month of work
$500 / year personal development budget
A team administrative assistant that you can delegate personal and work tasks to
Different speakers, tutors, and coaches to facilitate professional development
Commuter benefits
A relocation bonus
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