Frontend Software Engineer
Location: San Francisco, CA
Department: Engineering
About
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.
Role
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.
Responsibilities
- 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.
Qualifications
- 4+ 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 (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.
Bonus points for:
- 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
Why join us?
- 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
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