Member of Technical Staff, Applied AI Engineer
Edison Scientific14 hours ago
San Francisco, CA, USA or New York, NY, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$175k - $240k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect, implement, and maintain AI agents from prototype through production.
- Explore agent architectures, prompting strategies, tool integrations, and evaluation frameworks with science and engineering teams.
- Develop reusable agent skills, tool-use pipelines, and benchmarks that improve the platform.
- Spend approximately 30% of the time with R&D partners understanding workflows, testing systems, and incorporating field insights.
- Translate field insights and internal research into product direction and prioritization.
Requirements
- Typically 4+ years of professional software engineering experience and production experience shipping systems used 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 and ability to learn new tools and frameworks quickly.
- Ability to work across engineering, science, and product teams and operate effectively in ambiguous, fast-moving environments.
- Preferred: experience in life sciences, biomedical research, scientific computing, or technical R&D workflows.
- Preferred: experience building agent systems, tool-use pipelines, or AI application evaluation and benchmarking frameworks.
- Preferred: contributions to open-source scientific or 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.
- Twelve 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 during office days and dinner when working late.
- Regular team off-sites and company events.
- Full-time employee benefits are provided; work arrangement is not otherwise 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.