Edison Scientific
Member of Technical Staff, Applied AI Engineer
$175K–$240K
San Francisco +1 · On-site · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 8, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco
New York - Experience
- Typically, 4+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Education
- Strong engineering foundation in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, Data Science, or a related technical field.
About the job
Build and maintain production AI scientist agents, prototype new capabilities, and improve agent infrastructure for life-sciences workflows.
What you'll do
- Architect, implement, and maintain AI agents from prototype through production.
- Explore agent architectures, prompting strategies, tool integrations, and evaluation frameworks; develop reusable agent infrastructure.
- Work with R&D partners (~30%) to validate agents in real workflows and inform product priorities.
What they ask for
- Typically, 4+ years of professional software engineering experience, including production systems used by real users.
- Experience building LLM-powered tools or applications, including prompting, context engineering, agent architectures, and evaluation frameworks.
- Strong foundation in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, Data Science, or a related technical field.
- Proficiency in Python and/or TypeScript; able to work across engineering, science, and product teams.
Nice to have
- Experience in life sciences, biomedical research, scientific computing, or technical R&D workflows.
- Experience building agent systems, tool-use pipelines, or evaluation/benchmarking frameworks; open-source scientific or AI tooling contributions.
Pay
$175K – $240K USD base salary
Tools
Python, TypeScript
AI focus
Build and improve AI scientist agents, including agent architectures, prompting, tool integrations, and evaluation frameworks.
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