Model Behavior Engineer, Reasoning and Decision Making

Elicit

Location
Remote (US)
Type
Full-time
Compensation
$220,000 – $260,000 per year
Posted
Oct 22, 2026
Last checked
Oct 23, 2026
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Job description

Engineer AI systems that help teams make high-stakes decisions by improving model reasoning, evaluation, and legibility.
- Understand real decision-making contexts with users and domain experts; identify objectives, constraints, and evidence gaps.
- Design evaluations for complex reasoning tasks; combine expert judgment with quantitative analysis to measure meaningful improvements.
- Improve agent behavior through experimentation with problem decomposition, tools, context, and information-seeking strategies.
- Build maintainable software for reasoning workflows with clear abstractions, reliable failure modes, and integrated monitoring.
- Requires strong Python skills, practical language model experience, and rigorous thinking about ambiguous problems.

About Elicit

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Elicit is a public benefit company developing an AI research assistant to help researchers make better decisions. Their product aims to be a scalable ML system prioritising systematicity and transparency, with supervision of process, not outcomes.

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Yearly pay midpoint
$240,000
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The midpoint exceeds 84% of 19 open full-time Communications & Media roles here with published pay. Their median midpoint is $135,000. This compares listed ranges, not offers or applicant competition.

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