# Model Behavior Engineer, Reasoning and Decision Making at Elicit

- Company: Elicit
- What the company does: Elicit helps you synthesize evidence, understand the landscape, design programs and experiments, draft proposals, and weigh tradeoffs. Trusted by over 7 million researchers and 8 of the top 20 pharmaceutical companies. Backed by Basis Set Ventures.
- Company website: https://elicit.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Mid level
- Location: Oakland, CA (or remote within US timezones)
- Work setup: Remote
- Posted: 2026-10-17
- Apply by: 2026-12-01
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/elicit/55f74344-9dc8-437d-97d0-99c8f14661e7?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/elicit-model-behavior-engineer-reasoning-and-decision-making/

## About the role

You'll join our engineering team and report to an Engineering Manager. You'll work on a cross-functional engineering team, collaborating closely with other engineers, product, design, and domain experts, taking problems from investigation and experimental design through implementation and use in the product. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- 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 inspect individual failures in detail
- 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 models change
- 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
- We care about evidence of these abilities. Substantial projects, thoughtful experiments, and clear explanations of technical decisions are useful ways to show us how you work

Tags: Engineering

Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/elicit-model-behavior-engineer-reasoning-and-decision-making/