Member of Technical Staff, Frontend Engineer
Edison ScientificBase Salary
$175k - $240k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect, design, implement, and optimize performant, scalable frontend interfaces for the scientific discovery platform.
- Translate complex AI-driven scientific workflows into clear, intuitive user experiences.
- Collaborate with product and research teams to anticipate user needs and develop features.
- Build and maintain a modular design system and reusable component libraries.
- Profile and optimize rendering performance, asset loading, and interaction responsiveness across browsers and devices.
- Integrate real-time data visualizations and dynamic interfaces.
- Conduct code reviews, enforce engineering best practices, and contribute to frontend architecture decisions.
Requirements
- Typically 4+ years of professional frontend engineering experience shipping performant, complex, data visualization-heavy web applications.
- Deep experience with JavaScript, React, and TypeScript.
- Strong understanding of browser rendering pipelines, performance profiling, and optimization techniques.
- Experience with real-time data handling such as WebSockets or GraphQL subscriptions.
- Experience with interactive visualizations such as D3.js, Deck.gl, or Three.js.
- Ability to transform technical and scientific requirements into elegant, usable visualizations and interfaces.
- Experience building design systems and reusable component libraries.
- Knowledge of accessibility standards and responsive design principles.
- Bonus: experience with scientific data visualization, computational biology, or AI/ML tools.
- Bonus: familiarity with backend integration patterns for high-throughput data pipelines.
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.
- Commuter benefits for transit and parking using pre-tax dollars.
- 401(k) company matching.
- $300 quarterly health and wellness benefit.
- Free lunch each day in the office and dinner when working late.
- Regular team off-sites and company events.
- On-site work 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.