Principal Member of Technical Staff, Product Engineering
Edison Scientific2 months ago
Base Salary
$200k - $350k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define long-term technical architecture for the product platform.
- Lead the design, implementation, and maintenance of backend services, APIs, databases, and data pipelines.
- Drive engineering standards, reliability, scalability, monitoring, observability, and automated testing.
- Partner with engineering leadership on technical strategy and roadmap planning.
- Mentor senior engineers and improve engineering practices across teams.
- Collaborate with engineering, product, and research teams to deliver AI-driven features and services.
Requirements
- Typically 10+ years of software engineering experience with exposure to backend and frontend development.
- Strong experience with a backend language such as Python or Node.js; the interview process requires Python.
- Experience designing and consuming APIs, including FastAPI and REST; GraphQL experience is a plus.
- Familiarity with frontend frameworks such as React and Next.js.
- Working knowledge of relational or document databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, or MongoDB.
- Exposure to AWS, GCP, or Azure and containerized environments using Docker; Kubernetes is a plus.
- Experience with version control, CI/CD pipelines, and basic automated testing.
- Curiosity, eagerness to learn, and experience with data-heavy systems, scientific tooling, ML/AI-adjacent platforms, startups, or small teams are valued.
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 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.
Tech Stack
AWSAzureDockerFastAPIGoogle Cloud PlatformGraphQLKubernetesMongoDBMySQLNext.jsNode.jsPostgreSQLPythonReact
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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.