Model Behavior Engineer, Reasoning and Decision Making
About Elicit
Elicit helps research and business teams investigate hard questions and make high-stakes decisions grounded in evidence.
Our ambition is to make high-quality reasoning under uncertainty available at a much greater scale in contexts where stakes are high and feedback is sparse. We're building AI systems whose work people can inspect, question, and improve, so that increasingly capable AI also makes us more wise.
Why we're hiring for this role
Some of the most valuable questions people face are also the hardest to answer well. Which research program should a team advance? What evidence would change its priorities? Which uncertainty is worth resolving before committing to a multi-year, $100 million dollar trial?
Today's models can contribute to these decisions, but they often miss a crucial consideration, make an assumption they should have checked, or reverse a recommendation too readily when presented with new information. Further, because they can perform increasing amounts of work autonomously, their process and reasoning is often poorly legible, so decision makers are wary to trust their outputs. Helping with these problems requires a deep understanding of model behaviors, what matters for different types of decisions, the environments and cultures in which decisions are made, and how to evaluat
