Edison Scientific
1 open Forward Deployed Engineer role at Edison Scientific. Curated with comp bands.
Comp on the board: $200K–$350K.
On the board since Jul 2026 · still hiring
Our take
Why Edison Scientific
The rarest vertical on the board: forward-deployed AI engineering for frontier scientific discovery, paid like a senior lab-adjacent seat.
- FDE type
- True forward-deployed
- Travel
- High
- Comp
- Competitive
- Stage
- Early-stage
A good fit if you're…
- Engineers with scientific or bio/chem R&D backgrounds
- People who want to embed deeply with one flagship customer
- Builders who'd rather accelerate research than automate back-office work
What they do
Edison Scientific (spun out of the nonprofit FutureHouse) builds AI agents for scientific R&D, led by Kosmos — an 'AI scientist' that runs large numbers of literature, data-analysis, and hypothesis tasks in parallel. Customers are research organizations trying to compress months of work into days.
What “forward deployed” means here
The role embeds on-site with a leading science R&D organization and owns how Edison's agents create value there: mapping the scientific and operational landscape, then shipping solutions end-to-end in fast cycles. The posting is explicit that this is not remote support or implementation consulting — it's closer to a staff engineer seconded into a lab.
Comp & leveling
$200K–$350K for 4+ years, Boston or SF on-site. The top of the band is lab-adjacent; land in the upper half if you bring domain depth (biology, chemistry, materials) alongside production AI experience, since that combination is rare.
Growth signals
Moving from nonprofit research to a commercial company with embedded deployments signals serious intent to sell into pharma and research institutions. Early-stage risk is real, but the FDE here shapes both the customer outcome and the product's scientific credibility.
Analysis updated 2026-09-23
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