Edison Scientific

Applied AI Engineer

San Francisco, CA

Sponsorship not specified$160k-$280kDetected 127 days ago

TypeScriptPythonData ScienceLLMsAgentic AIResearch

About the role

Scientific discovery moves too slowly, and autonomous AI agents are how we intend to fix that.

Architect, implement, and maintain the AI agents that power Edison's platform, from prototype through production.
Develop reusable infrastructure - agent skills, tool-use pipelines, benchmarks - that improves every agent on the platform.
Spend time with R&D partners (~30%) to understand their workflows, test what you've built in real environments, and bring insights back to the team.
Translate field insights and internal research into product direction - help the team prioritize what to build next.
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.
You'll own the development and maintenance of production agents, prototype new capabilities with our internal science and engineering teams, and shape how our platform evolves.

3+ years of professional software engineering experience, with production experience shipping systems that real users depend on.
Experience building LLM-powered tools or applications: prompting, context engineering, agent architectures, evaluation frameworks.
Comfortable building from scratch, driving clarity in ambiguous situations, and wearing multiple hats.
Bonus points for:
Experience building agent systems, tool-use pipelines, or evaluation/benchmarking frameworks for AI applications.
$160,000 - $280,000
Offers equity
Why join us?
Competitive salary and equity

Experience in life sciences, biomedical research, scientific computing, or technical R&D workflows.
Contributions to open-source scientific or AI tooling.
401(k) company matching
Lunch is on us every day you're in the office, and dinner is on us when you're working late
Regular team offsites and company events
A fast-moving, mission-driven culture where smart people do their best work and actually enjoy doing it

Strong engineering foundation in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, Data Science, or a related technical field.
Proficiency in Python and/or TypeScript, with comfort picking up new tools and frameworks quickly.
Able to work across engineering, science, and product teams.

Support for growing families, including a yearly new parent stipend and fertility coverage through Carrot
$300 health and wellness benefit

We're looking for an Applied AI Engineer to join the team responsible for building Edison's most powerful AI agents.
You'll spend some time with customers to understand real workflows and validate what you're building, but your primary focus is on the agents themselves - making them more capable, more reliable, and more useful across the life sciences.

This listing is sourced directly from Edison Scientific's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.