Research - engineering

Research Engineer San Francisco, CA

$This is a rare opportunity to build production grade AI systems that directly accelerate scientific discovery. You will work at the frontier of applied AI, owning end to end agent development and seeing your work used daily by researchers across industry and academia. They are a venture backed AI research and engineering organisation building autonomous AI agents to transform how science is done. Their platform automates complex research workflows across life sciences, combining literature synthesis, data analysis, hypothesis generation, and experimental design. Backed by significant funding, they are scaling quickly with the ambition to become the default AI platform for scientific research.

As a Research Engineer focused on Applied AI, you will be a core builder of production AI agents used by external research teams.

Design, build, and maintain AI agents from prototype through to production

Build reusable infrastructure such as agent skills, tool use pipelines, and benchmarks

Work closely with internal science, engineering, and product teams to shape capabilities

Translate field insights into clear technical and product priorities

Strong commercial experience shipping production software systems used by real users

Hands on experience building and deploying LLM powered applications in practice

Proven experience with agentic AI, including agent orchestration, RAG, and tool use pipelines

Strong engineering foundations in computer science or a related technical discipline

Proficiency in Python and or TypeScript, with the ability to learn new tools quickly

Comfortable working across research, engineering, and product in ambiguous environments

Exposure to life sciences, biomedical research, or scientific computing workflows

Experience designing evaluation or benchmarking frameworks for AI systems

Contributions to open source AI or scientific tooling

Comprehensive healthcare coverage

Strong support for career progression as the team and platform scale

An in office culture in San Francisco with close collaboration across disciplines

If you are excited by building applied AI systems at the edge of scientific research, apply to learn more about this opportunity.