Edison Scientific
Applied AI Engineer
San Francisco, CA · Mid
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About the role
- Scientific discovery moves too slowly, and autonomous AI agents are how we intend to fix that.
Responsibilities
- 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.
Requirements
- 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
- Why join us?
Skills
- 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.
- Experience in life sciences, biomedical research, scientific computing, or technical R&D workflows.
- Contributions to open-source scientific or AI tooling.
- Offers equity
- Competitive salary and equity
- Full healthcare coverage - we pay 100% of premiums for you and your dependents
- 401(k) company matching
- $300 health and wellness benefit
- 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
Compensation
- $160,000 - $280,000 • Offers equity
- Competitive salary and equity
- Full healthcare coverage - we pay 100% of premiums for you and your dependents
Benefits
- Support for growing families, including a yearly new parent stipend and fertility coverage through Carrot
Company info
- 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.