Software Engineer, Data Platform (Fully Remote)

Elicit; United States; Remote; USD 185,000 - 305,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible remote

Oakland office

Quarterly retreats

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k)

Wellness stipend

Learning budget

Job summary

Elicit is an AI research company that helps scientists and decision-makers find, synthesize, and understand research. We are a public benefit corporation with a small, AI-native engineering team building a scholarly search and data platform used across frontend, backend, and data layers.

We seek a software engineer with 5+ years of production-grade Python experience, strong sense of product judgment, and experience with distributed pipelines and SQL.

Qualifications

• 5+ years software engineering with production systems.
• Strong Python experience.
• Experience with distributed pipelines and SQL.

Responsibilities

• Own the scholarly search and data platform, from coverage to cost.
• Build secure integrations and ship end-to-end across frontend, backend, and data.

Skills

Python

Distributed pipelines

SQL

Production systems

Job description

• Own the scholarly search and data platform, from coverage to cost.
• Build secure integrations and ship end-to-end across frontend, backend, and data.

What we're looking for:

• 5+ years software engineering with production systems and strong Python.
• Experience with distributed pipelines, SQL, and product judgment.

Benefits and compensation:

• Flexible remote or Oakland work with quarterly retreats.
• Health, dental, vision, 401(k), wellness stipend, learning budget.
• Salary $185k-$305k plus equity.

Elicit is an AI research agent that helps scientists and decision-makers find, synthesize, and understand research. We are a public benefit corporation with a small, AI-native engineering team focused on high-stakes evidence.