Applied AI Engineer

About the Company

Edison Scientific builds and commercializes AI agents for science. Scientific discovery moves too slowly, and autonomous AI agents are how we intend to fix that. We're assembling a team of top researchers and engineers across AI and biology to build an AI scientist.

Responsibilities

• Architect, implement, and maintain the AI agents that power Edison's platform, from prototype through production
• Work with internal science and engineering teams to explore new agent architectures, prompting strategies, tool integrations, and evaluation frameworks
• Develop reusable infrastructure including agent skills, tool-use pipelines, and benchmarks
• Spend time with R&D partners to understand workflows and test products in real environments
• Translate field insights and internal research into product direction

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
• 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 field
• Proficiency in Python and/or TypeScript
• Ability to work across engineering, science, and product teams
• Ability to build from scratch and drive clarity in ambiguous situations

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

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity
• Full healthcare coverage (100% of premiums for you and dependents)
• Support for growing families including yearly new parent stipend and fertility coverage
• Mental health support through Rula
• 12 weeks of paid parental leave
• Pet care support with yearly employer-funded stipend
• Commuter benefits
• 401(k) company matching
• $300 quarterly health and wellness benefit
• Daily lunch and late-night dinner provided