Protein Engineer
Edison Scientific · Remote · Remote available (U.S. Only) ·
COMPENSATION
$180k – $250k
Listed on the employer's job board (Ashby)
- PhD + 5 years experience
- Onsite with partners
- Rosetta & AlphaFold
- Travel 20-40%
- Equity included
Join the Forward Deployed team at Edison Scientific, where you will work directly with pharmaceutical and biotech partners. Your focus will be on ensuring AI agents produce scientifically sound, developable protein designs by defining benchmarks and stress-testing outputs against real-world engineering principles.
What you'll do
- Evaluate AI agent performance on sequence optimization and stability prediction
- Build benchmarks and success criteria for biologics-focused workflows
- Deploy AI agents into partner engineering pipelines alongside their teams
- Assess biological plausibility and manufacturability of AI-generated outputs
- Collaborate daily with engineers and computational biologists on accounts
- Support technical evaluation and scoping with the go-to-market team
What you'll need
- PhD in Protein Engineering, Biochemistry, or related field
- 5+ years industry experience in biologics discovery or protein engineering
- Track record in antibody or enzyme optimization campaigns
- Proficiency with Rosetta, AlphaFold, FoldX, or molecular dynamics platforms
- Strong foundation in protein structure, function, and stability
- Experience integrating developability and immunogenicity data into design
- Ability to travel domestically 20-40% of the time
Nice to have
- Experience working across multiple therapeutic modalities
- Proficiency in Python programming
- Comfort with ambiguity and fast iteration cycles
- Prior client-facing research experience outside academia
Stack
- Rosetta
- AlphaFold
- FoldX
- Molecular dynamics platforms
- Python
How you'll work
- Onsite work with pharma and biotech partners
- Domestic travel required 20-40% of the time
- Collaboration with Forward Deployed Engineers and Computational Biologists
What you get
- Competitive salary and equity package
- 100% healthcare premiums covered for employee and dependents
- 12 weeks paid parental leave for maternity, paternity, and adoption
- Yearly new parent stipend and fertility coverage via Carrot
- Mental health support through Rula network
- Yearly employer-funded pet care stipend
- Commuter benefits for transit and parking
- 401(k) company matching
- $300 quarterly health and wellness benefit
- Daily lunch provided and dinner when working late