Engineering Manager, Cloud

Edison Scientific, Inc.; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 250,000 - 350,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary & equity

Full healthcare

Parental leave

Mental health support

Pet care stipend

Commuter benefits

401(k) matching

Wellness stipend

Team off-sites

Job summary

Edison Scientific, Inc. in San Francisco's Dogpatch neighborhood is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead and scale the cloud team responsible for deploying our BYOC-enabled AI scientist platform for enterprise clients.

You will mentor engineers, influence architecture, and collaborate with stakeholders to ensure secure, scalable cloud deployments within client environments. This on-site role includes equity and comprehensive benefits.

Qualifications

• 4+ years leading an engineering team and cross-functional initiatives.
• Experience with enterprise clients.
• Proficiency in at least one systems or backend language.
• Deep familiarity with AWS/GCP, security, and deployment operations.
• Knowledge of network architectures (VPCs, DNS, secrets, proxies).
• Hands-on with infrastructure-as-code tools and GitOps.

Responsibilities

• Manage and develop the cloud team, including mentorship and career growth.
• Own client deployments and onboarding with enterprise clients.
• Coordinate with the forward-deployed team to align timelines and requirements.
• Lead BYOC deployment strategy and security considerations.
• Diagnose bottlenecks in BYOC processes to streamline operations.
• Develop a scaling strategy for engagement capacity.
• Make technical decisions for the BYOC product.
• Oversee cross-functional communications with engineers and stakeholders.

Skills

Engineering team management

Enterprise client experience

Backend systems

Cloud (AWS/GCP)

Networking architecture

Infrastructure as code

Tools

Terraform

Pulumi

Crossplane

Job description

About us

Edison Scientific builds and deploys AI scientist agents to accelerate science and the development of new medicines. We are an ambitious team run by scientists and engineers from leading institutions across biology, physics, chemistry, and AI.

The Role

As an Engineering Manager, you'll play a key role in leading and scaling the people and technology powering our autonomous scientific discovery platform.

Your primary focus will be in leading our cloud team. Our largest enterprise clients have compliance and security limitations which limit first-party data access to systems running within their own cloud infrastructure. These datasets are uniquely valuable assets, when combined with our scientific platform, Edison’s enterprise partners are able to power novel drug or materials discovery campaigns at massive scale. The cloud team’s mandate is to conquer the gnarly complexity that comes with these “bring your own cloud” engagements such that our platform is deployable within client cloud infrastructure.

Our mission is to build an AI scientist, and you'll lead the team which enables Edison to scale to the largest research organizations in the world. This role will influence architecture, operations, and growth of our cloud deployment product. You will help mentor junior engineers and enable senior engineers to build world class software.

This role is on-site at our San Francisco office in the Dogpatch neighborhood. Our office is a converted warehouse with high ceilings, open space, and a team that genuinely believes in what they're building.

Responsibilities

• Manage and develop the existing 5 person cloud team owning the mentorship, career development, and hiring for this critical organizational function.

• Own client interactions surrounding deployments and onboarding with our growing portfolio of enterprise clients.

• Partner with our forward deployed engineering team to set delivery timelines and align on requirements for inflight engagements.

• Lead the team to develop a world class strategy around secure bring your own cloud (BYOC) deployments.

• Diagnose and solve bottlenecks in our BYOC process to streamline operations.

• Develop a technical and people strategy for scaling up our engagement capacity.

• Own technical decision making surrounding our BYOC product.

• Manage cross-functional communication and planning between engineering teams and stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience managing an engineering team and leading cross-functional initiatives.

• Prior experience working with clients in an enterprise setting.

• Proficiency in at least one systems or backend language for operator development and infrastructure tooling.

• Deep familiarity with cloud products (AWS/GCP), security, and deployment operations.

• Strong understanding of application network architecture including VPCs, DNS, secrets, proxies, etc.

• Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Pulumi, or Crossplane) and GitOps workflows.

Bonus points for

• Experience with AI applications or scientific computing solutions.

• Prior experience in startups or small teams with significant architectural ownership and ambiguity.

• Experience scaling systems, teams, or platforms through periods of rapid growth.

Salary

$250,000 - $350,000 • Offers equity

Why join us?

We're a fast-moving, mission-driven culture where smart people do their best work and actually enjoy doing it. We also offer full-time employees the following:

• Competitive salary and equity

• 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

• Mental health support through Rula, our in-network therapist and psychiatrist network with fast availability

• 12 weeks of paid parental leave for maternity, paternity, and adoption

• Pet care support with a yearly employer-funded stipend for your animal companions

• Commuter benefits so you can pay for transit and parking with pre-tax dollars

• 401(k) company matching

• $300 health and wellness benefit quarterly

• Lunch is on us every day you're in the office, and dinner is on us when you're working late

• Regular team off-sites and company events

Edison Scientific is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.