About the role

Role overview

As a Frontend Engineer at Elicit, you’ll help ship useful, high-quality features for researchers using a modern front-end stack. You’ll own the delivery of exciting functionality on a weekly cadence, balancing rapid iteration with maintainable systems and great user experience.

What you’ll do

Ship front-end features for Elicit users, including:
- known feature improvements and fixes
- prototypes to validate ideas
- exploratory projects in between
Own features in production, ensuring they are:
- scalable and resilient
- easy to operate
Balance speed and quality by keeping smooth user workflows and a delightful UI experience.
Collaborate on product/UX and engineering topics, contributing to discussions around UX, system design, and architecture.
Work closely with a small team and keep user needs central to your decisions and trade-offs.

Requirements (what you bring)

Strong CS fundamentals and ability to move comfortably around the stack.
Proficiency in automated tests, HTML/CSS, JavaScript, React, and TypeScript.
At least a few years of professional experience contributing to software teams and building complex web applications.

Hiring signals / technical screening topics

Be ready to discuss:

React component re-rendering behavior
Flexbox vs. CSS Grid and when to use each
Web Workers: purpose and when they help
Implementing drop-shadow effects with Tailwind

Tech stack (from the posting)

Frontend: Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind (also mentions Chakra)
Backend: Node, Python
Infrastructure: Kubernetes across a couple of clouds
Code review/CI: GitHub

Location / travel

Office in Oakland, CA (not all-time, but team connection is important).
Quarterly team retreat typically in and around the SF Bay Area.

About Elicit

Elicit is an AI research assistant that helps researchers determine what’s true and make better decisions, starting with tasks like literature review. It uses language models and human-understandable task decompositions, aiming to expand safe, interpretable AI research and practical reasoning support for both experts and non-experts.

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