Model Behavior Engineer, Reasoning and Decision Making

About this role

Elicit is hiring for a Model Behavior Engineer, Reasoning and Decision Making role (full-time). See the official posting for full details.

Requirements

• Rigorous thinking about ambiguous problems. You can make a vague question precise, identify hidden assumptions, weigh conflicting evidence, and explain what would change your mind. You can make progress while remaining…
• Curiosity across domains and clear communication. You enjoy getting to grips with unfamiliar subjects, learning from specialists, and explaining your reasoning to people with different expertise. A good sign is having l…
• Good experimental instincts. You can devise a useful test when there isn't an established benchmark, distinguish evidence from noise, and recognize when your evaluation is rewarding the wrong behavior. You're willing to…
• The ability to implement your ideas. You can independently write and debug code, work with data and model APIs, and take an experiment into a maintained codebase. You're comfortable with Python or a comparable language…
• Practical familiarity with language models. You've explored their capabilities and limitations enough to have informed ideas about how to improve them. You can choose an approach based on the problem and update it as mo…
• Strong engineering and architectural judgment. You can design a coherent system, explain your choices, and recognize when an abstraction helps or adds unnecessary complexity. You've built software that others can unders…
• Effective use of coding assistants. You use AI tools to increase what you can build while taking responsibility for understanding the design and verifying the result.

Summarized from the employer's posting — check the full posting for every requirement.