Machine Learning Engineer
Elicit
📍Remote (Global) 🕔 Full Time
💰 $195-250K USD 🔄 Rolling Applications
About the Role
As an ML research engineer at Elicit, you will:
Compose together tens to thousands of calls to language models to accomplish tasks that we can't accomplish with a single call.
Curate datasets for finetuning models, e.g. for training models to extract policy conclusions from papers
Set up evaluation metrics that tell us what changes to our models or training setup are improvements
Scale up semantic search from a few thousand documents to 100k+ documents
About You
To help us get there, you'll need:
A strong software engineering background. We want to apply your experience building systems, designing architecture, and thinking about good abstractions. Elicit will need you to do much more than write scripts.
Familiarity with language models (training, finetuning, evaluation), or comparable machine learning or natural language processing background (e.g. experience with information extraction, semantic search)
A startup mindset. We expect to measure our impact in part by the people whose lives we improve through reasoning and models of the future. We know you care about that too. You’ll want to test lots of ideas, get feedback, and watch yourself learning and growing every day.
To get a sense for how some of us look at applications, see this thread. (The short version: Wherever we can we prefer to directly evaluate work.)
You can review a longer list of the kinds of ML-related projects you'd be working on here.
Am I a good fit?
Consider these questions:
How does a transformer work?
What is a tokenizer?
What is a decorator in Python?
What are generic types?
Strong applicants will find it easy to answer these questions.
Benefits
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):
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
$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
Commuter benefits, a relocation bonus, and more!
You can find more reasons to work with us in this thread.
For all roles at Elicit, we use a data-backed compensation framework to make sure our salaries are market-competitive, equitable, and simple.
This role starts between $195-250K + equity, depending on your level. We're optimizing for a hire who can contribute at a L4/senior-level or above. For this role, we're very open to hearing from staff/principal level contributors.
