Edison Scientific is looking for an Applied AI Engineer to own the development and maintenance of production AI agents and shape how the platform evolves. You will make the agents more capable, reliable, and useful across the life sciences.

What You'll Do

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 – 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.

What We're Looking For

3+ 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.

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 for AI applications.
Contributions to open-source scientific or AI tooling.

Technical Stack

Python
TypeScript

Team & Environment

You'll join the team responsible for building Edison's most powerful AI agents.

Benefits & Compensation

Compensation: $160,000 - $280,000 + 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.
401(k) company matching.
$300 health and wellness benefit.
Lunch is on us every day you're in the office, and dinner is on us when you're working late.
Regular team offsites and company events.