About the Role
We are looking for an engineer to join the team responsible for building Edison's AI agents, specifically focusing on the development and design of our AI scientist agent, Kosmos. You will own the development and maintenance of production agents, prototype new capabilities, and shape the platform's evolution.
Responsibilities
- Architect, implement, and maintain AI agents from prototype through production.
- Collaborate with internal teams to explore new agent architectures, prompting strategies, tool integrations, and evaluation frameworks.
- Develop reusable infrastructure, including agent skills, tool-use pipelines, and benchmarks.
- Engage with R&D partners to understand workflows, test solutions, and provide feedback.
- Translate field insights and research into product direction and prioritization.
Requirements
- Typically 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with production experience shipping systems.
- Experience building LLM-powered tools or applications, including prompting, context engineering, agent architectures, and 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.
- Ability to work effectively across engineering, science, and product teams.
- Comfortable building from scratch, driving clarity in ambiguous situations, and wearing multiple hats.
Skills
- Python
- TypeScript
- LLM-powered tools
- Agent architectures
- Prompting
- Context engineering
- Evaluation frameworks
- Life sciences
- Biomedical research
- Scientific computing
- Technical R&D workflows
- Agent systems
- Tool-use pipelines
- AI applications
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
Education Level
- Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, Data Science, or a related technical field.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and equity
- Full healthcare coverage (100% premium for employee and dependents)
- Yearly new parent stipend
- Fertility coverage through Carrot
- Mental health support through Rula
- 12 weeks of paid parental leave
- Yearly employer-funded pet care stipend
- Commuter benefits (pre-tax dollars for transit and parking)
- 401(k) company matching
- $300 quarterly health and wellness benefit
- Daily lunch provided in office
- Dinner provided when working late
- Regular team offsites and company events
About the Company
- Edison Scientific builds and deploys AI scientist agents to accelerate science and the development of new medicines.
- Ambitious team run by scientists and engineers from leading institutions across biology, physics, chemistry, and AI.
- Fast-moving, mission-driven culture where smart people do their best work and enjoy it.
Equal Opportunity
- 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.
