About the Role
Edison Scientific is seeking an engineer to develop and maintain AI scientist agents, focusing on prototyping new capabilities, improving platform evolution, and understanding customer workflows to enhance agent performance, reliability, and usefulness across the life sciences.
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 in real environments, and provide feedback.
- Translate field insights and internal research into product direction and prioritization.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including shipping production systems.
- 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.
- Ability to quickly learn new tools and frameworks.
- Capacity to work across engineering, science, and product teams.
- Comfort building from scratch, driving clarity in ambiguous situations, and handling multiple responsibilities.
Skills
- Python
- TypeScript
- LLM-powered tools
- Agent architectures
- Prompting
- Context engineering
- Evaluation frameworks
- Tool integrations
- 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 transit and parking)
- 401(k) company matching
- Quarterly $300 health and wellness benefit
- Daily lunch provided in office
- Dinner provided when working late
- Regular team off-sites and company events
About the Company
- Edison Scientific builds and deploys AI scientist agents to accelerate science and the development of new medicines.
- The team consists of scientists and engineers from leading institutions across biology, physics, chemistry, and AI.
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.
