Frontend Software Engineer

Edison Scientific builds and commercializes AI agents for science. Scientific discovery moves too slowly, and autonomous AI agents are how we intend to fix that. We're assembling a team of top researchers and engineers across AI and biology to build an AI scientist.

As a Frontend Engineer, you will help build our “integrated research environment” and design a UX that empowers scientists to integrate AI into their discovery process.

This role is on-site at our San Francisco office in the Dogpatch neighborhood. Our office is a converted warehouse with high ceilings, open space, and a team that genuinely believes in what they're building.

This position is part of the Platform team. 

• Architect, design, implement, and optimize the front-end for our scientific discovery platform with a focus on performance and scalable UI patterns.

• Translate complex AI-driven scientific workflows into clear, intuitive, and well-signposted user experiences.

• Work closely with product and research teams to anticipate user needs and features.

• Develop and maintain a modular design system.

• Profile and optimize rendering performance, asset loading, and interaction responsiveness across browsers and devices.

• Integrate real-time data visualizations and dynamic interfaces to empower scientists on our platform.

• Conduct code reviews, enforce engineering best practices, and contribute to front-end architecture decisions.

• 5+ years of professional experience in front-end engineering, with a track record of shipping performant, complex, and data visualization-heavy web applications.

• Proficiency with React (highly preferred) or a comparable framework, along with deep experience in JavaScript/TypeScript.

• Strong understanding of browser rendering pipelines, performance profiling, and optimization techniques.

• Experience with real-time data handling (e.g., WebSockets, GraphQL subscriptions) and interactive visualizations (e.g., D3.js, Deck.gl, Three.js).

• Ability to transform technical and scientific requirements into elegant, usable visualizations & interfaces.

• Experience building design systems and reusable component libraries.

• Knowledge of accessibility standards and responsive design principles.

• Experience with scientific data visualization, computational biology, or AI/ML tools.

• Familiarity with back-end integration patterns for high-throughput data pipelines.

Salary

$175,000 - $240,000  •  Offers equity

• Competitive salary and 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

• A fast-moving, mission-driven culture where smart people do their best work and actually enjoy doing it