Agentic AI Engineer (Scientific Discovery)

Location: New York, NY Work Model: Hybrid Compensation: $250K to $600K base, plus sign-on and year-end bonuses

Overview

A well-established scientific research organization is standing up a new AI initiative at the intersection of agentic systems, generative AI, scientific computing, and drug discovery. The work is greenfield: rather than maintaining mature systems, the role will help define how AI agents, retrieval systems, and intelligent workflows are built and deployed for researchers working on hard problems in molecular science.

The position is a software engineering role first. It calls for someone who has built complex production systems and now wants to apply that ability to LLM applications, RAG architectures, and AI-assisted research tooling used directly by accomplished scientists and ML researchers. The role carries end-to-end ownership, from initial experimentation and