Member of Technical Staff, Full-stack Engineer
Edison ScientificBase Salary
$175k - $240k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain backend services, APIs, and databases for the scientific discovery platform.
- Build and extend data pipelines supporting AI agents and research workflows.
- Contribute to frontend features and workflows in collaboration with design and frontend engineers.
- Implement monitoring, observability, automated testing, and other improvements supporting reliability and uptime.
- Troubleshoot issues across the stack and improve system quality.
- Collaborate with engineering, design, and research teams to ship AI-driven features and services.
Requirements
- Typically 4+ years of software engineering experience spanning backend and frontend development.
- Strong proficiency in at least one backend language, with Python required for the interview process.
- Experience designing and consuming APIs, including FastAPI and REST; GraphQL is a plus.
- Familiarity with React, Next.js, or similar frontend frameworks and modern web development practices.
- Working knowledge of relational or document databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, or MongoDB.
- Exposure to AWS, GCP, or Azure and containerized environments such as Docker; Kubernetes is a plus.
- Experience with version control, CI/CD pipelines, and basic automated testing.
- Strong curiosity, growth mindset, and eagerness to learn.
- Bonus: experience with data-heavy systems, scientific tooling, ML/AI-adjacent platforms, startups, or small teams with end-to-end ownership.
Benefits
- $175,000-$240,000 salary plus equity.
- Full healthcare coverage with 100% of premiums paid for employees and dependents.
- New parent stipend, fertility coverage through Carrot, mental health support through Rula, and 12 weeks of paid parental leave.
- Yearly pet-care stipend, commuter benefits, 401(k) company matching, and a quarterly $300 health and wellness benefit.
- Free lunch while in the office and dinner when working late, plus regular team off-sites and company events.
- Full-time, on-site position at the San Francisco office in the Dogpatch neighborhood.
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About Edison Scientific
Edison Scientific is building the AI platform for scientific research and development. Kosmos, our AI scientist, collaborates with teams across the full R&D lifecycle, leveraging proprietary data and organizational context to help navigate complex scientific decisions and accelerate timelines from discovery to FDA approval. We believe the full gains from AI in science will only be realized when AI systems are integrated across the entire research and development stack, continuously learning from the evolving scientific context inside an organization. With Edison Scientific, scientists and researchers remain at the center of scientific progress, using AI to amplify their expertise and accelerate discovery at unprecedented speed. Edison is a scientist-led company that was spun out of the nonprofit research lab FutureHouse in 2025, backed by $70M from Spark Capital, Triatomic Capital, Susa Ventures, Pillar Ventures, among other investors.