Member of Technical Staff, Senior AI Full-Stack Engineer
Edison Scientific2 months ago
Base Salary
$175k - $240k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain backend services, APIs, and databases for the scientific discovery platform.
- Contribute to frontend features and workflows in collaboration with design and frontend engineers.
- Build and extend data pipelines supporting AI agents and research workflows.
- Implement monitoring, observability, automated testing, and reliability improvements.
- Troubleshoot issues across the stack and collaborate on new AI-driven features and services.
Requirements
- Typically 6+ years of software engineering experience with backend and frontend development exposure.
- Strong proficiency in a backend language such as Python or Node.js; Python is required for the interview process.
- Experience designing and consuming APIs, including FastAPI and REST; GraphQL is a plus.
- Familiarity with frontend frameworks such as React or Next.js and modern web development practices.
- Working knowledge of relational or document databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, or MongoDB.
- Experience with version control, CI/CD pipelines, and basic automated testing.
- Preferred: experience with data-heavy systems, scientific tooling, ML/AI-adjacent platforms, startups, or small teams with end-to-end ownership.
Benefits
- $175,000-$240,000 salary plus equity.
- Full healthcare coverage with premiums paid for employees and dependents.
- New parent stipend, fertility coverage through Carrot, mental health support through Rula, and 12 weeks of paid parental leave.
- Pet care stipend, commuter benefits, 401(k) company matching, and a quarterly $300 health and wellness benefit.
- Free lunch in the office and dinner when working late, plus team off-sites and company events.
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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.