Member of Technical Staff, Applied AI Engineer

Edison; San Francisco, New York (CA, NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary & equity

Full healthcare coverage

Parental leave stipend

Fertility coverage

Mental health support

Commuter benefits

401(k) match

Wellness stipend

Office meals & team events

Job summary

Edison Scientific in San Francisco is seeking an Applied AI engineer to lead the development and maintenance of production AI agents, including Kosmos. You will prototype new capabilities with internal science and engineering teams and validate workflows with customers while focusing on agent reliability and usefulness across life sciences.

You will bridge software engineering, AI research, and product direction, building scalable architectures, tool-use pipelines, and evaluation frameworks that

Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional software engineering experience shipping production systems.
• Experience building LLM-powered tools or applications: prompting, context engineering, agent architectures.
• Strong CS/Math/Science or related technical background.
• Proficiency in Python and/or TypeScript, with ability to pick up new tools quickly.

Responsibilities

• Architect, implement, and maintain production AI agents powering Edison’s platform, from prototype to production.
• Collaborate with internal science and engineering teams to explore agent architectures, prompting strategies, and evaluation frameworks.
• Develop reusable infrastructure—agent skills, tool-use pipelines, benchmarks—that improve every agent on the platform.
• Spend time with R&D partners (~30%) to test workflows in real environments and bring insights back to the team.
• Translate field insights into product direction and help prioritize future work.

Skills

4+ years software engineering

LLM-powered tools

Python/TypeScript

Cross-functional collaboration

Problem solving across domains

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.

About the Role

We're looking for an Applied AI engineer to join the team responsible for building Edison's AI agents. This team owns the development and design of our AI scientist agent, Kosmos.

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. 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.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect, implement, and maintain the AI agents that power Edison's platform, from prototype through production.
• Work with our internal science and engineering teams to explore new agent architectures, prompting strategies, tool integrations, and evaluation frameworks.
• 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.

Required Qualifications

• Typically, 4+ 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.
• 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.
• Comfortable building from scratch, driving clarity in ambiguous situations, and wearing multiple hats.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in life sciences, biomedical research, scientific computing, or technical R&D workflows.
• Experience building agent systems, tool-use pipelines, or evaluation/benchmarking frameworks for AI applications.
• Contributions to open-source scientific or AI tooling.

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.