Protein Engineer

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. Role We're looking for a Protein Engineer to join our Forward Deployed team, working onsite with pharma and biotech partners alongside our engineers and computational biologists. In this role, you’ll ensure our AI agents generate biologics design recommendations that are scientifically rigorous, developable, and grounded in real protein engineering principles. You'll define benchmarks, stress test agent outputs, and collaborate with our partners' biologics teams to identify where AI can accelerate their engineering and optimization workflows. This is embedded, partner facing work. You'll build relationships with Protein Scientists, Protein Engineers, and Engineering Leadership to learn how they evaluate and prioritize protein variants, and bring those insights back to our AI team so our platform gets smarter about what makes a good candidate. Responsibilities Evaluate and improve AI agent performance on protein engineering tasks including sequence optimization, variant library design, stability and developability prediction, and functional screening strategy Build benchmarks and success criteria for biologics focused agent [... source excerpt omitted ...] daily with Forward Deployed Engineers and Computational Biologists on each account Support engagement scoping, success metrics, and technical evaluation with go-to-market team. Requirements Ph.D. in Protein Engineering, Biochemistry, Biophysics, Bioengineering, or a related field and 5+ years of industry experience in biologics discovery or protein engineering, ideally within a pharma or biotech sponsor organization Track record in protein optimization campaigns spanning antibody engineering, enzyme engineering, or other therapeutic protein modalities Strong proficiency with protein design and analysis tools such as Rosetta, AlphaFold, FoldX, or molecular dynamics platforms St [... source excerpt omitted ...] 0% of the time Nice to Have Experience working across multiple modalities Python proficiency High comfort with ambiguity and fast iteration Prior experience in an industry or client-facing research context, outside of academia Why join us? We're a fast-moving, mission-driven culture where smart people do their best work and actually enjoy doing it. We also offer full-time employees the following: 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 Mental health support through Rula, our in-network therapist