Job Title: AI Engineer Company Name: Elicit Job Url: https://simplify.jobs/jobs?query=Software+engineer&state=North+America&points=83%3B-170%3B7%3B-52&experience=Mid+Level%3BSenior&category=AI%2FML%2FGenAI+Engineering%3BBackend+Engineering%3BFrontend+Engineering%3BFull-Stack+Engineering%3BSoftware+Engineering&jobId=6d4e287c-b4a8-4f68-9302-d123e4d6c56a&workArrangement=Remote Job Description: AI Engineer Confirmed live in the last 24 hours Unlock job analytics with Simplify+ Elicit 51-200 employees AI-powered literature review and data extraction Compensation Overview $195k - $285k/yr + Equity Mid, Senior, Expert Oakland, CA, USA Remote Must be able to travel for quarterly in-person retreats and coworking events. Category AI & Machine Learning (2) Applied Machine Learning , Deep Learning Required Skills Skills that you prefer have been highlighted Python LLM Machine Learning Get referrals → You have ways to get a Elicit referral from your network. Applications through a referral are 3x more likely to get an interview! Summary Full Job Posting You match the following Elicit's candidate preferences Employers are more likely to interview you if you match these preferences: Degree Experience You have ways to get a Elicit referral from your network. Get referrals → Requirements Strong technical aptitude that allows you to move comfortably around our back-end tech stack, with strong computer science fundamentals. A genuine curiosity and enthusiasm for the capabilities of language models. A defensive, fault-first mindset. Above-average communication skills. Elicit is a small, highly-collaborative team, so you’ll frequently be tapped to communicate complex engineering topics with stakeholders across the company. A sense of joy in what you do. One thing we love about our team at Elicit is that everybody’s a craftsperson who cares deeply about their field. Experience with backend development, particularly Node and Python. Responsibilities Backend implementation of our "living document". You would work on, curate, extend, and improve the backend part of that technology, including distributed systems work. Building Elicit into a product researchers can’t live without by shipping useful, exciting features out to users on a weekly basis. Focus will be on code between the Backend-for-Frontend endpoints and the machine learning models we use, including known features/fixes, prototypes to validate ideas, and exploratory projects. Keeping Elicit’s bar for quality high by balancing short-term feature shipping with building extensible and maintainable systems; being responsible for your features in production to be scalable, resilient, and easy to operate; contributing to discussions around system design, performance evaluation, and architecture. Keyword Match Strong - 9 out of 15 found Elicit Website View Company Profile Elicit is an AI-powered research assistant that speeds up complex scholarly workflows by using large language models to search a database of over 125 million papers through natural-language queries. It goes beyond keyword searches by finding semantically relevant studies, extracts specific data from papers, and compiles results into organized tables and summaries. Users can upload their own PDFs for analysis, with outputs grounded in verifiable sources to reduce AI hallucinations. The platform operates as a Public Benefit Corporation, serving individuals and large organizations while offering tiered freemium pricing to improve research efficiency and evidence-based decision making. Company Size 51-200 Company Stage Series A Total Funding $31M Headquarters Oakland, California Founded 2023 Simplify's Take What believers are saying Series A raised $22M at $100M valuation in February 2025. Database expanded to 138M papers and 545K clinical trials. James Brady from Spring appointed Head of Engineering in 2026. What critics are saying Perplexity's Deep Research captures market with 2M users in 6 months. Consensus app steals Genentech, Novartis in biomedicine within 12 months. OpenAI Scholar commoditizes features, crashes subscriptions in 3 months. What makes Elicit unique Elicit analyzes up to 20,000 data points across 1,000 papers simultaneously. Sentence-level citations ensure transparency in all AI outputs. Systematic Review automates screening and extraction 80% faster.