Principal Member of Technical Staff, Core Infrastructure
Edison ScientificBase Salary
$200k - $350k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect, implement, and operate highly available Kubernetes clusters supporting thousands of concurrent persistent resources.
- Design and develop custom resource definitions and Kubernetes operators for AI agent lifecycles, research pipelines, and long-running compute tasks.
- Define cluster scaling, node pool management, autoscaling, resource quota, scheduling, placement, and affinity strategies.
- Build and maintain reproducible infrastructure-as-code environments using Terraform, Pulumi, or similar tools.
- Establish observability, monitoring, alerting, and incident response practices for infrastructure systems.
- Own Kubernetes storage and networking strategy, including persistent volumes, CSI drivers, service mesh, network policies, and ingress.
- Troubleshoot complex distributed infrastructure issues and guide others through debugging and remediation.
- Collaborate with backend, ML, and research teams to translate workload requirements into reliable infrastructure patterns.
Requirements
- 10+ years of professional infrastructure or platform engineering experience with deep hands-on Kubernetes expertise in production.
- Experience designing and implementing CRDs and Kubernetes operators using tools such as Kubebuilder, Operator SDK, or controller-runtime.
- Experience operating and scaling Kubernetes clusters with thousands of persistent or long-lived resources.
- Deep understanding of Kubernetes internals, including the API server, etcd, scheduler, controller manager, and kubelet.
- Expertise with AWS EKS, GCP GKE, or Azure AKS and related networking, storage, and IAM primitives.
- Proficiency in at least one systems or backend programming language for operator development and infrastructure tooling.
- Hands-on experience with Terraform, Pulumi, or Crossplane and GitOps workflows.
- Strong knowledge of container networking, CNI plugins, service mesh, network policies, CSI, persistent volumes, StatefulSets, RBAC, Pod Security Standards, and secrets management.
- Ability to work autonomously, make sound technical judgments, and drive projects from concept through production.
- Preferred experience with data-intensive platforms, scientific computing, ML/AI infrastructure, startups, significant architectural ownership, or scaling systems, teams, or platforms through rapid growth.
Benefits
- 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 during office days and dinner when working late.
- Regular team off-sites and company events.
- Full-time, on-site work at the San Francisco Dogpatch office.
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H1B sponsorship
Sponsorship for this role is unconfirmed.
Edison Scientific’s past filings provide context. They do not guarantee sponsorship for a current opening.
H1B petition approvals by fiscal year
- FY 2026 · through Q21
0 initial/new employment approvals · 1 changes of employer
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Job fields receiving H1B certifications
Partial fiscal year, through Q3
- Software Developers3 · 75%
- Information Security Analysts1 · 25%
Job fields come from government occupation codes, rather than internal departments. Counts are certified Labor Condition Applications, not visa approvals or unique hires. Withdrawn and denied cases are excluded.
Source: US Department of LaborMatched government employer: EDISON SCIENTIFIC INC
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.