Member of Technical Staff, Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Edison ScientificBase Salary
$175k - $240k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build, maintain, and improve Kubernetes-based infrastructure for agent workloads, research services, and internal platforms.
- Contribute to cluster scaling, resource management, and operational improvements as platform usage grows.
- Develop infrastructure tooling, automation, and deployment workflows that improve reliability and developer productivity.
- Implement monitoring, observability, and alerting systems for platform health and performance.
- Support storage, networking, and security initiatives within Kubernetes environments.
- Troubleshoot infrastructure and production issues across distributed systems and participate in incident response.
- Partner with backend, ML, and research teams to understand workload requirements and deliver reliable infrastructure solutions.
- Contribute to infrastructure best practices, documentation, and operational processes.
Requirements
- Typically 6+ years of software, infrastructure, platform, or DevOps engineering experience.
- Experience with Kubernetes in development or production environments.
- Familiarity with AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Proficiency in at least one of Python, Go, Java, or TypeScript.
- Experience with Terraform, Pulumi, or similar infrastructure-as-code technologies.
- Understanding of containerized applications, networking fundamentals, and distributed systems concepts.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, version control systems, and automated testing practices.
- Ability to work independently and collaborate effectively across teams.
- Curiosity, strong problem-solving skills, and willingness to learn new technologies.
- Bonus experience with gVisor, Kata Containers, or snapshots for security-related infrastructure work.
Benefits
- $175,000–$240,000 salary plus equity.
- Full healthcare coverage with 100% of premiums paid for the employee 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.
- 401(k) company matching.
- $300 quarterly health and wellness benefit.
- Free lunch on office days and dinner when working late.
- Regular team off-sites and company events.
- Full-time, 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.