Member of Technical Staff, Applied AI Engineer
Edison Scientific1 month ago
San Francisco, CA, USA or New York, NY, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$175k - $240k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect, implement, and maintain production AI agents from prototype through deployment.
- Develop agent skills, tool-use pipelines, benchmarks, and evaluation infrastructure that improves the platform.
- Prototype new agent architectures, prompting strategies, tool integrations, and evaluation frameworks with internal science and engineering teams.
- Spend approximately 30% of the role working with R&D partners to understand workflows, validate solutions, and incorporate field insights.
- Translate research and customer insights into product direction and prioritization.
Requirements
- Typically 4+ years of professional software engineering experience and production experience shipping systems relied on by real users.
- Experience building LLM-powered tools or applications, including prompting, context engineering, agent architectures, and evaluation frameworks.
- Strong foundation in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, Data Science, or a related technical field.
- Proficiency in Python and/or TypeScript, with the ability to learn new tools and frameworks quickly.
- Ability to collaborate across engineering, science, and product teams and work effectively in ambiguous, fast-moving environments.
- Preferred experience in life sciences, biomedical research, scientific computing, technical R&D workflows, agent systems, tool-use pipelines, evaluation or benchmarking frameworks, or open-source scientific and AI tooling.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and equity.
- Full healthcare coverage with 100% of premiums paid for employees and dependents.
- Yearly new parent stipend and fertility coverage through Carrot.
- Mental health support through Rula.
- 12 weeks of paid parental leave for maternity, paternity, and adoption.
- Yearly employer-funded pet care stipend.
- Pre-tax commuter benefits for transit and parking.
- 401(k) company matching.
- $300 quarterly health and wellness benefit.
- Free lunch while working in the office and dinner when working late.
- Regular team off-sites and company events.
- Full-time employee benefits are offered; work arrangement is not specified.
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About Edison Scientific
Edison Scientific builds AI scientist agents and an R&D platform (Kosmos) for pharma, biotech, and materials teams, integrating with organizations’ proprietary data to guide experiments and analysis from discovery through development. Headquartered in San Francisco and privately held, it was spun out of the nonprofit research lab FutureHouse in 2025, and offers enterprise deployments—including bring-your-own-cloud installations—to meet compliance requirements at large research organizations.