Elicit · 5 months ago
Senior/Staff Machine Learning Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$230K/yr - $300K/yrElicit is building the reasoning layer for science and decision-making, utilizing language models to enhance research efficiency. The Senior/Staff Machine Learning Engineer will be responsible for composing calls to language models, curating datasets for model fine-tuning, setting evaluation metrics, and scaling semantic search capabilities.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Data Center AutomationDatabaseInformation Technology
Responsibilities
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
Qualification
Required
Strong software engineering background
Familiarity with language models (training, fine-tuning, evaluation), or a comparable machine learning or natural language processing background (e.g. experience with information extraction, semantic search)
Startup mindset
Benefits
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
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 that you can delegate personal and work tasks to
Commuter benefits, a relocation bonus, and more!
Company
Elicit
Elicit uses language models to help users automate research workflows.
Founded in 2023
11-50 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageTotal Funding
$31MKey Investors
Fifty Years
2025-02-26Series A· $22M
2023-09-25Seed· $9M
Leadership Team
Andreas Stuhlmüller
Cofounder & CEO
Jungwon Byun
Cofounder & COO
Recent News
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