Member of Technical Staff, Agent Engineer

Edison Scientific • New York, NY

11d • $175,000 - $240,000

About The Position

Edison Scientific is seeking an Agent Engineer to join the team responsible for building its AI scientist agent, Kosmos. The role focuses primarily on developing and maintaining production agents, prototyping new capabilities with internal science and engineering teams, and helping shape the evolution of the platform. The engineer will also work with R&D partners to understand real workflows and validate agent capabilities, then use those insights to improve the agents’ capability, reliability, and usefulness across the life sciences.

Requirements

• Typically, 4 or more years of professional software engineering experience, including production experience shipping systems that real users depend on.
• 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, and ability to learn new tools and frameworks quickly.
• Ability to work across engineering, science, and product teams.
• Comfort building from scratch, providing clarity in ambiguous situations, and taking on multiple roles.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in life sciences, biomedical research, scientific computing, or technical R&D workflows.
• Experience building agent systems, tool-use pipelines, or evaluation and benchmarking frameworks for AI applications.
• Contributions to open-source scientific or AI tooling.

Responsibilities

• Architect, implement, and maintain the AI agents powering Edison's platform, from prototype through production.
• Work with internal science and engineering teams to explore agent architectures, prompting strategies, tool integrations, and evaluation frameworks.
• Develop reusable infrastructure, including agent skills, tool-use pipelines, and benchmarks, to improve agents across the platform.
• Spend approximately 30% of the time with R&D partners to understand workflows, test developed capabilities in real environments, and share insights with the team.
• Translate field insights and internal research into product direction and help prioritize future development.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity.
• Full healthcare coverage, with 100% of premiums paid for the employee and dependents.
• Yearly new parent stipend and fertility coverage through Carrot.
• Mental health support through Rula, an in-network therapist and psychiatrist network.
• 12 weeks of paid parental leave for maternity, paternity, and adoption.
• Yearly employer-funded pet care stipend.
• Commuter benefits for transit and parking using pre-tax dollars.
• 401(k) company matching.
• Quarterly $300 health and wellness benefit.
• Lunch on office days and dinner when working late.
• Regular team off-sites and company events.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed