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We currently have 20 engineers and only two people managers. This role is crucially important to ensure that our world-class engineers are given the opportunity to do the best work of their career here.\nWe’re looking for an Engineering Manager to help us scale our team without sacrificing the speed, technical excellence, and ownership that epitomize how we build products.\nThis role is more of a coach than a player. It’s important you are sufficiently technically-engaged to steward wise architectural decisions, mentor engineers, and help unblock difficult technical problems. However, your primary impact will be through building and motivating a high-performing team rather than individual contributions in code.\nYou, your team, and your product counterpart will own outcomes, not just a roadmap. Roadmaps are hypotheses: when reality diverges, we expect you to notice, question, and change course.\nWhat you’ll own\nBuild and grow a high-performing engineering team\nDirectly manage a team of up to 8 software engineers.\n\nCoach engineers through technical growth, career development, and increasing ownership.\n\nBuild a culture of high standards, rapid iteration, and thoughtful execution.\n\nHelp identify, hire, onboard, and develop exceptional engineers.\n\nShip ambitious and successful product features\nPartner closely with product, designers, and fellow engineers to prioritize tactical and strategic goals into an audacious roadmap.\n\nOwn the execution of a significant portion of Elicit’s roadmap.\n\nBalance shipping quickly against building systems that remain maintainable as Elicit grows.\n\nRemove execution bottlenecks and ensure the team consistently delivers high-quality work.\n\nRaise our engineering bar\nParticipate in architectural discussions and technical planning.\n\nReview code and provide thoughtful technical feedback.\n\nHelp engineers make strong engineering tradeoffs around performance, reliability, scalability, and simplicity.\n\nActively improve engineering processes, tooling, and team effectiveness.\n\nMultiply the impact of the team\nDevelop engineers into increasingly independent technical leaders.\n\nGive actionable feedback through regular coaching and performance management.\n\nFoster a collaborative environment where engineers learn from one another and continuously improve.\n\nGuide the team towards wise use of coding agents: pushing for ambitious use while staying honest about what's actually saving time. Ensure that your team develops the skills to grow into this new way of working rather than being diminished by it.\n\nWhat you bring to the role\nWe’re looking for someone who combines outstanding people leadership with excellent technical judgment.\n7+ years of professional software engineering experience.\n\n3+ years directly managing software engineers.\n\nExperience leading engineering teams at high-bar startups.\n\nStrong computer science fundamentals and the technical depth to earn the trust of senior engineers.\n\nExperience shipping complex, user-facing products with measurable business impact.\n\nA track record of helping engineers grow through coaching, mentorship, and clear feedback.\n\nStrong communication skills and an ability to collaborate across engineering, product, and design.\n\nProfound curiosity about language models, AI, and building products that improve reasoning and decision-making.\n\nScope expectations\nCandidates are likely not a fit if their most recent experience is primarily organizational leadership at scale (for example, Head of Engineering, VP Engineering, or Senior Director at large organizations), or if they’ve been removed from hands-on engineering management for several years.\nFounders, CTOs, or engineering leaders from seed or Series A startups who remained close to the code are excellent fits.\nWhat you’ll actually do\nLead a high-performing team of about 7 engineers, with the remit of making Elicit the daily driver research tool for research teams.\n\nAttract, source, and hire excellent engineers.\n\nDrive execution across complex product initiatives.\n\nPartner closely with product, design, and research to turn ambiguous ideas into shipped software.\n\nGive thoughtful feedback, coaching, and career guidance.\n\nParticipate in architecture discussions, system design reviews, and technical planning.\n\nImprove how the team works rather than becoming another pair of hands on the keyboard.\n\nRaise the quality bar for engineering and AI-assisted development.\n\nYou’d be especially successful if you…\nEnjoy helping engineers grow even more than writing code yourself.\n\nCare deeply about engineering craftsmanship without slowing delivery.\n\nCan comfortably switch between coaching a teammate, reviewing architecture, and discussing product priorities in the same afternoon.\n\nPrefer high-agency, low-process environments.\n\nAre motivated by improving science, reasoning, and the long-term impact of AI.\n\nYour first week\nMeet your team, understand the in-flight work, familiarise yourself with our product direction.\n\nShip a small feature or bug fix to see the engineering process end-to-end.\n\nParticipate in technical design discussions and code reviews.\n\nStart building relationships through regular one-on-ones.\n\nPair extensively with engineers across the team to get to know the tech stack and your colleagues.\n\nYour first month\nTake ownership of your team’s planning and delivery.\n\nEstablish a regular coaching cadence with each engineer.\n\nLead sprint planning, prioritization, and execution for your team’s roadmap.\n\nIdentify opportunities to improve engineering quality, process, or developer experience\n\nYour first quarter\nYour team is consistently delivering high-quality work; the impact of this work is measured and aligned with Elicit’s strategy.\n\nEngineers on your team have clear growth plans and are making tangible progress.\n\nYou’ve earned the trust of the engineering organization through sound technical judgment and thoughtful leadership.\n\nYou’ve helped raise the engineering bar through hiring, coaching, architecture, or process improvements.\n\nYou’re operating independently as the owner of an important area of Elicit’s engineering organization.\n\nWhat we’re looking for beyond technical ability\nThe qualities that matter most at Elicit include:\nHonesty and integrity.\n\nAnalytical rigor.\n\nRapid iteration.\n\nBias toward action.\n\nStrong communication.\n\nIntellectual curiosity.\n\nPersistence.\n\nProactivity.\n\nOpenness to criticism and new ideas.\n\nExcellent people management.\n\nStrong hiring instincts.\n\nTechnical judgment.\n\nProduct sense.\n\nLocation and travel\nWe have a great office in Oakland, CA, and we'd love to see you there if you're local. That said, we're just as happy for you to work remotely. We do get the whole team together for a quarterly retreat somewhere fun, because in-person time matters to us.\nBenefits and perks\nIn addition to working on important problems as part of a productive and positive team, we also offer great benefits (with some variation based on location):\nFlexible work environment: work from our office in Oakland or remotely with time zone overlap (between GMT and GMT-8), as long as you’re comfortable traveling for quarterly in-person offsites\n\nFully covered health, dental, vision, and life insurance for you, generous coverage for the rest of your family (FSA/HSA, too)\n\nFlexible vacation policy, with a minimum recommendation of 20 days / year and plenty of company holidays\n\nEvery Elician receives a $200 monthly wellbeing stipend to spend on whatever supports your health and wellbeing.\n\n401K with a 6% employer match\n\nA new Mac + $1,000 budget to set up your workstation or home office in your first year, then $500 every year thereafter\n\n$1,000 quarterly AI Experimentation & Learning budget, so you can freely experiment with new AI tools to incorporate into your workflow, take courses, purchase educational resources, or attend AI-focused conferences and events\n\nA team administrative assistant who can help you with personal and work tasks\n\nYou can find more reasons to work with us in this thread!\n\nCompensation\nFor all roles at Elicit, we use a data-backed compensation framework to keep salaries market-competitive, equitable, and simple to understand. 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