[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.ResponsibilitiesBuild Elicit into a product researchers can’t live withoutYou’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 basisYou will work on a mix of known features / fixes, prototypes to validate ideas, and exploratory projects in betweenOur team is small, so we expect you to appreciate the user needs underlying everything you work onYou should be comfortable making decisions and trade-offs that help us fulfill users’ needs bestKeep Elicit’s bar for quality highYou’ll balance shipping features in the short term with building extensible and maintainable systemsYou will be responsible for your features in production: they need to be scalable, resilient, and easy to operateYou’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 useWe 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 featuresYou’ll contribute to discussions around UX, system design, and architectureSkillsStrong technical skills that will enable you to move comfortably around our tech stack, with strong computer science fundamentalsProficient with automated tests, CSS, HTML, Javascript, React, and TypeScriptAt least a few years of professional experience contributing to software development teams and working on complex web appsAbove-average communication skillsExperience or exposure to working with language modelsAbility to write a lot of asynchronous code and think defensively about error handlingA sense of joy in what you doBenefitsFlexible work environment: work from our office in Oakland or remotely, as long as you’re comfortable traveling for in-person retreats and coworking eventsFully 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 holidays401K with a 6% employer matchA 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 eventsA team administrative assistant who can help you with personal and work tasksAbove-market equity for all roles at Elicit, as well as employee-friendly equity termsCompany OverviewElicit uses language models to help users automate research workflows. It was founded in 2023, and is headquartered in Oakland, California, USA, with a workforce of 11-50 employees. Its website is https://elicit.com.