Frontend Software Engineer

About

FutureHouse, a philanthropically funded AI research lab in San Francisco, laid the groundwork for AI agents capable of autonomously performing scientific research to accelerate basic discovery in biology. Edison Scientific, a spinout of FutureHouse, now carries this mission forward to build an AI Scientist-scaling the research, productizing it, and applying it to critical challenges such as drug development.

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.

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

• 3+ 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.
• Based in the San Francisco Bay Area or willing to relocate.

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.