Edison Scientific
Senior/Principal AI Research Scientist
San Francisco, CA · Principal
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About the role
- Scientific discovery moves too slowly, and autonomous AI agents are how we intend to fix that.
- Your role will encompass both cutting-edge research and applied methods, bringing your work to bear on scientific challenges in laboratories and scientists around the world.
- This role is on-site at our San Francisco office in the Dogpatch neighborhood.
Responsibilities
- Interpret challenges in building AI agents for science as well-formulated statistical problems
- Own research projects end-to-end, from working with scientists to scope the problem all the way to working with engineers to deploy the outcomes
- Develop and extend our experimentation platform for internal tools and projects.
- Collaborate closely with a multidisciplinary team of AI researchers, engineers, biologists, and chemists, fostering an environment of innovation and discovery.
- Edison Scientific builds and commercializes AI agents for science.
- We're assembling a team of top researchers and engineers across AI and biology to build an AI scientist.
- As an Senior/ Principal AI Research Scientist at Edison Scientific, you play a central role in developing the models and algorithms that accelerate scientific research.
- Our office is a converted warehouse with high ceilings, open space, and a team excited about what we're building.
Requirements
- Experience with large-scale training and experimentation technologies (e.g. Ray, verl, Megatron-LM, etc.)
- Experience working with data and ML systems: EDA, feature engineering, model development, model deployment, and validation in production systems.
- Familiarity with modeling in PyTorch, Jax or equivalent framework.
- Demonstrated experience with experimentation in academic or industry settings.
- Strong programming expertise with the capability to adapt to various technical challenges in the data, ML, and LLM software stack.
- Familiarity with leveraging and managing distributed systems
- 6-10+ years of strong track record of ML research on real-world problems in (but not limited to) reinforcement learning, representation learning, and Bayesian methods
- Fluency in PyTorch, Jax, or equivalent framework
- Bonus points for:
- PhD in Machine Learning, Computer Science, or other quantitative field
- $210,000 - $350,000
- Offers equity
- Why join us?
- Competitive salary and equity
Compensation
- $210,000 - $350,000 • Offers equity
- Competitive salary and equity
- Full healthcare coverage - we pay 100% of premiums for you and your dependents
Benefits
- Full healthcare coverage - we pay 100% of premiums for you and your dependents
- Support for growing families, including a yearly new parent stipend and fertility coverage through Carrot
- $300 health and wellness benefit
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