
Elicit, the AI research assistant, helps you automate time-consuming research tasks like summarizing papers, extracting data, and synthesizing your findings. We're a public benefit company with a mission to scale up good reasoning. We want machine learning to help as much with thinking and reflection as it does with tasks that have clear short-term outcomes.

Elicit, the AI research assistant, helps you automate time-consuming research tasks like summarizing papers, extracting data, and synthesizing your findings. We're a public benefit company with a mission to scale up good reasoning. We want machine learning to help as much with thinking and reflection as it does with tasks that have clear short-term outcomes.
Product: AI research assistant for literature search, extraction, and summarization
Corporate form: Public benefit corporation
Founders / leadership: Andreas Stuhlmüller (Co-founder & CEO), Jungwon Byun (Co-founder & COO)
Recent funding: $9M seed (Sep 2023) and $22M Series A (Feb 2025)
Monthly active users (reported): 400,000+ researchers per month (reported Feb 2025)
Research workflows and literature review automation
AI / Research software
$9,000,000
Company became a public benefit corporation concurrent with the seed round; angel participation reported
$22,000,000
Existing investors including Fifty Years, Basis Set, and Mythos participated
“Participation from deep-tech and early-stage investors (Fifty Years, Basis Set, Mythos) plus prominent angels; Series A led by institutional firms Spark Capital and Footwork”
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About Elicit Elicit is an AI research assistant that uses language models to help researchers figure out what’s true and make better decisions, starting with common research tasks like literature review.
What We're Aiming For
Elicit radically increases the amount of good reasoning in the world.
For experts, Elicit pushes the frontier forward.
For non-experts, Elicit makes good reasoning more affordable. People who don't have the tools, expertise, time, or mental energy to make well-reasoned decisions on their own can do so with Elicit.
Elicit is a scalable ML system based on human-understandable task decompositions, with supervision of process, not outcomes. This expands our collective understanding of safe AGI architectures.
Visit our Twitter to learn more about how Elicit is helping researchers and making progress on our mission.
Why we're hiring for this role
Since launching the newest version of Elicit last fall, response has been strong. We introduced Elicit Plus, our monthly subscription plan, and added thousands of paying users in a matter of months as well as hundreds of thousands of new sign-ups. This has been energizing for our team, but we want to ship more useful functionality to our users even faster. We want to add another strong senior-level engineer to our team who’ll help us meet the demand for new features and improved performance.
What you'll own
Build Elicit into a product researchers can’t live without
You’ll 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 contribute to discussions around UX, system design, and architecture.
Projects you'll contribute to
You can view sample projects here.
What you bring to the role
Our tech stack
Am I a good fit?
Consider These Questions
Strong applicants will find it easy to answer these questions.
Location and travel
We have a lovely office in Oakland, CA, but we don't all work from there all the time. It's important to us to spend time with our teammates, however, we have a quarterly team retreat, normally in and around the SF bay area.
Compensation, Benefits, And Perks In addition to working on important problems as part of a productive and positive team, we also offer great benefits (with some variation based on location):
Role For all roles at Elicit, we use a data-backed compensation framework to keep salaries market-competitive, equitable, and simple to understand. For this role, we target starting ranges of:
We're optimizing for a hire who can contribute at a L4/senior-level or above.
We offer above-market equity for all roles at Elicit, as well as employee-friendly equity terms.