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Applied AI Engineer

Edison Scientific - San Francisco, CA

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Compensation: Salary $220,000 - $350,000 • Offers equity WHY JOIN US? Competitive salary and equity Full healthcare cove

Responsibilities

• Architect, implement, and maintain the AI agents that power Edison's platform, from prototype through production.
• Work with our 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.

Qualifications

• 5+ 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.
• 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.

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