Senior Software Enginer, Data and Integrations
About Elicit
Elicit is an AI research agent that helps scientists and decision-makers find, synthesise, and understand research. Pharma and biotech teams rely on it for systematic reviews and other work where the evidence has to hold up. We're a public benefit corporation, founded to radically improve reasoning for high-stakes decisions, and our engineering team is small and works in an AI-native way.
Why this role exists
Elicit is only as useful as the evidence underneath it. That takes far more than a large corpus of academic papers. We bring together scholarly literature, clinical trials, specialised scientific databases, licensed publisher content, and our customers' private data, then make all of it usable in cited, agentic research workflows.
You'll own a big part of that. You'll improve the distributed systems that build and update our search corpus, make adding a new source repeatable, and turn publisher and enterprise requirements into secure, dependable product features. This is product engineering with a strong data-systems core. It isn't an analytics or BI role.
It's also a full-stack role. A new source only matters once researchers can see and use it, so part of your time goes to the product on top: our Next.js and React frontend, the TypeScript and Python services behind it, and the APIs that con
