Elicit
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US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2025 · +9% in a year
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8
open roles
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Momentum
0/100
no fresh signals
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
May 16, 2024
On the Hacker News front page Elicit – AI Research Assistant · 111 points
Dec 20, 2023
On the Hacker News front page Build a search engine, not a vector DB · 241 points
2018
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Web presence
top 0.01%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
20
best: 241 points
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How Elicit hires
Truth index
B 75/100
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
100%
Reposted roles
0%
Elicit scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 7 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 100% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
Overview
Elicit is a research company that builds an artificial intelligence assistant for systematic literature review. Its product searches millions of papers, extracts methods, populations and findings into structured tables and drafts evidence summaries with citations. It grew out of the non-profit research organisation Ought, founded in 2018, and is used by academic, medical and policy researchers.
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Engineering interviews in the era of agents - Elicit
Two years ago we published our stance on coding assistants in interviews. A lot has changed…
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Ofgang: Elicit Brewing's recipe for success (with a new space in Danbury) isn't all about beer
The new 14,000-square-foot Danbury space occupies what used to be a Barnes & Noble, and the sheer size of it is what first impresses you upon a visit, Ofgang writes.
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Looking for Hidden Gems in Scientific Literature - Elicit
Scientific literature is vast and contains within it as yet unnoticed connections. Literature-based discovery is an attempt to bring them to light.
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Introducing Clinical Trials - Elicit
Clinical Trials are now in Elicit. Search over 545,000 studies on clinicaltrials.gov and instantly summarize them into tables or reports.
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Elicit Reports
Introducing Elicit Reports: fully automated rigorous research overviews, designed for researchers, and built on the principles of systematic reviews.
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Introducing Elicit Systematic Review - Elicit
Elicit Systematic Review turns months of manual work into minutes, guiding researchers through each step while preserving rigor and accuracy.
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Against RL: The Case for System 2 Learning - Elicit
Reinforcement learning may boost LLMs today, but it cannot deliver safe, long-term intelligence. We argue for System 2 learning instead.
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Nick Byrd, Ph.D. (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 imageDo moral dilemmas elicit competing intuitions? Not in all countriesConsider two options:- Reduce great harm even when that requires causing a smaller amount of harm (a la utilitarianism)- Do no harm, even when that allows more harm than n
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Elicit over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
28
Postings analysed
2
Stack modernity
68/100
Languages
SQL
Databases
Amazon Aurora
PostgreSQL
Redis
Cloud & platforms
AWS
Amazon EKS
Cloudflare
CoreWeave
Datadog
GCP
GitHub Actions
Kubernetes
Developer tools
ArgoCD
Claude Code
Cursor
Devin
Karpenter
Terraform
Practices & domains
A/B Testing
AI Agents
CI/CD
GitOps
NIST AI RMF
Platform Engineering
SLI/SLO/SLA
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Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$260k
Typical range
$180k – $360k
Open positions
8
5
Jobs
Senior
40%
Staff
60%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | 2 | $250k | $240k – $260k |
| Staff | 3 | $300k | $300k – $360k |
Highest paying role
Enterprise Account Executive
$360k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Elicit
By role, level and city, against the market · 8 jobs with pay
Growth
Hiring Momentum
58/100
Growing
Open positions
8
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
10/16/2026
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
DevOps
100% ▼
Activity Timeline
Removed Rest API from stack
Sep 2026
Added Rest API to stack
Sep 2026
Added Machine Learning to stack
Sep 2026
Added SIEM to stack
Sep 2026
Added Transformers to stack
Sep 2026
Added Tableau to stack
Sep 2026
Added SQL to stack
Sep 2026
Added Looker to stack
Sep 2026
Added A/B Testing to stack
Sep 2026
Added NIST AI RMF to stack
Aug 2026
Added Devin to stack
Aug 2026
Added CoreWeave to stack
Aug 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
Oakland
Oakland
United States
HQ
8 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 63% engineering 13% remote 50-200 est. staff $260k Avg Salary
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$185k – $260k per year • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Oakland
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Claude Code
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Cloudflare
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$195k – $260k per year • In office • Full-Time • Oakland
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JavaScript
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$185k – $220k per year • In office • Full-Time • Oakland
Python
CUDA Toolkit
Fine-tuning
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CUDA
Machine Learning
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