[Remote] Frontend Engineer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Elicit is an AI research assistant that helps researchers make better decisions through language models. They are seeking a Frontend Engineer to enhance their product by shipping useful features and maintaining high-quality user experiences.

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
• Our team is small, so we expect you to appreciate the user needs underlying everything you work on
• You should be comfortable making decisions and trade-offs that help us fulfill users’ needs best
• Keep Elicit’s bar for quality high
• You’ll balance shipping features in the short term with building extensible and maintainable systems
• You will be responsible for your features in production: they need to be scalable, resilient, and easy to operate
• You’ll be the biggest advocate for keeping Elicit’s bar high for smooth user workflows and making sure Elicit looks great and is a delight to use
• We want somebody on our team who’ll remain obsessed with a high quality user experience, and can hold us accountable to balancing that with shipping rapidly and pursuing new features
• You’ll contribute to discussions around UX, system design, and architecture

Skills

• Strong technical skills that will enable you to move comfortably around our tech stack, with strong computer science fundamentals
• 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
• Above-average communication skills
• Experience or exposure to working with language models
• Ability to write a lot of asynchronous code and think defensively about error handling
• A sense of joy in what you do

Benefits

• Flexible work environment: work from our office in Oakland or remotely, as long as you’re comfortable traveling for in-person retreats and coworking events
• 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
• 401K with a 6% employer match
• A new Mac + $1,000 budget to set up your workstation or home office in your first year, then $500 every year thereafter
• $1,000 quarterly AI Experimentation & Learning budget, so you can freely experiment with new AI tools to incorporate into your workflow, take courses, purchase educational resources, or attend AI-focused conferences and events
• A team administrative assistant who can help you with personal and work tasks
• Above-market equity for all roles at Elicit, as well as employee-friendly equity terms

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