Member of Technical Staff, Engineering Manager, Product
About Us
Edison Scientific builds and deploys AI scientist agents to accelerate science and the development of new medicines. We are an ambitious team run by scientists and engineers from leading institutions across biology, physics, chemistry, and AI.
About the Role
As an engineering manager, you'll play a key role in leading and scaling the people and technology powering our autonomous scientific discovery platform. You’ll lead our product application team, which owns the frontend and backend stack powering our user experience with Edison’s platform. You will partner with scientists, product managers, and designers to solve complex UX challenges inherent to scientific agents, including:
- Representing new information hierarchies
- Supporting multi-user collaboration with agents
- Persisting agent states across runtimes
- Managing access to agent and user-created assets
- Supporting a growing list of communication modalities
Your team will own both the API experience used by agents and automations as well as the UI that scientists interact with daily. This high-impact leadership role reports to the Head of Engineering. You will influence architecture, operations, and growth of our product engineering team, mentor junior engineers, and enable senior engineers to build world-class software. This role is on-site at our San Francisco office in the Dogpatch neighborhood.
Responsibilities
- Manage and grow our product engineering team, owning mentorship, career development, and the hiring pipeline as we scale from four to ten engineers by end of year.
- Partner with our product and research teams to bring state-of-the-art features into production.
- Set the technical strategy for our AI product platform, focusing on engineering quality and velocity.
- Diagnose and solve challenges that our scientists face in using our platform for discoveries.
- Own technical decision-making surrounding our API and UI layers.
- Manage cross-functional communication and planning between engineering teams and stakeholders.
Qualifications
- 4+ years of experience managing an engineering team and leading cross-functional initiatives.
- Prior experience working as a product engineer at a high-velocity, engineering-focused organization.
- Hands-on fullstack proficiency: Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, modern frontend frameworks, and infrastructure tooling.
- Deep familiarity with systems and API design, product thinking, and operating applications in production.
- Strong understanding of systems architecture including distributed systems, data modeling, and cloud infrastructure.
Bonus Points
- Experience with AI applications or scientific computing solutions.
- Prior experience in startups or small teams with significant architectural ownership and ambiguity.
- Experience scaling systems, teams, or platforms through periods of rapid growth.
Pay
$250,000 - $350,000. Offers equity.
Benefits
- 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.
- Mental health support through Rula, our in-network therapist and psychiatrist network with fast availability.
- 12 weeks of paid parental leave for maternity, paternity, and adoption.
- Pet care support with a yearly employer-funded stipend for your animal companions.
- Commuter benefits so you can pay for transit and parking with pre-tax dollars.
- 401(k) company matching.
- $300 health and wellness benefit quarterly.
- Lunch is on us every day you're in the office, and dinner is on us when you're working late.
- Regular team off-sites and company events.