Member of Technical Staff, Infrastructure Engineer
Edison ScientificBase Salary
$175k - $240k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect, implement, and operate highly available Kubernetes clusters supporting thousands of concurrent persistent agents, jobs, and services.
- Develop strategies for cluster scaling, node pool management, autoscaling, and resource quotas.
- Design scheduling, placement, and affinity strategies for heterogeneous CPU, GPU, and memory-intensive workloads.
- Establish observability, monitoring, alerting, and incident-response practices for infrastructure systems.
- Own Kubernetes storage and networking strategy, including persistent volumes, CSI drivers, service mesh, network policies, and ingress architecture.
- Troubleshoot complex distributed infrastructure issues and guide debugging and remediation.
- Partner with backend, ML, and research teams to translate workload requirements into reliable infrastructure patterns.
Requirements
- Typically 4+ years of professional infrastructure or platform engineering experience with hands-on production Kubernetes experience.
- Experience with AWS EKS, GCP GKE, or Azure AKS and related networking, storage, and IAM primitives.
- Proficiency in at least one systems or backend programming language for operator development and infrastructure tooling.
- Hands-on experience with Terraform, Pulumi, or Crossplane and GitOps workflows.
- Strong knowledge of container networking, CNI plugins, service mesh, network policies, CSI, persistent volumes, StatefulSets, RBAC, Pod Security Standards, and secrets management.
- Ability to work autonomously, make sound technical judgments, and drive projects from concept through production.
- Bonus experience with gVisor or Kata Containers and snapshots.
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.
- Pre-tax commuter benefits for transit and parking.
- 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, on-site role at the San Francisco Dogpatch office.
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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.