Associate Director, App
Lila Sciences · Cambridge, MA USA; San Francisco, CA USA · Alewife, Cambridge, MA · San Francisco, CA
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Bio & Science AIonsitedirector$204k–$306k
At a glance
Highlights
- Lead the Application Team building AI agents and interfaces for scientists.
- Ship platform connecting AI to automated lab workflows and ML pipelines.
- Accelerate research timelines from months to days with AI-native tools.
What they offer
- Bonus potential
- Early-stage equity
- Medical, dental and vision coverage
- Employer-paid life and disability insurance
- Flexible time off with company holidays
- Paid parental leave
- Educational assistance program
- Commuter benefits and subsidized lunch
Ideal candidate
An engineering leader energized by AI and science who thrives building high-performing teams from scratch and turning ambiguous research workflows into shipped product.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Engineering or related field
- 12+ years building and deploying large-scale production systems with 5+ years leading senior engineers
- Track record building high-performing teams in high-growth or early-stage environments
- Deep technical judgment on Applied AI and full-stack architecture
- Hands-on experience using AI coding assistants and agentic tooling
- Proven ability to define technical strategy and balance scalability, performance and delivery speed
- Strong cross-functional partner able to explain complex ideas to diverse audiences
Lab profile
About Lila Sciences
Building an autonomous science platform where AI, automation, and biology co-evolve for medicine and materials.
What they build
- Autonomous Science Platform
- AI-designed biologics validated in wet-lab
- Electro-optic materials and photonic devices
Known for
- Large-scale automated data generation
- High-throughput protein purification and analytics
- Protein design and BioML modeling
- Robotic orchestration and lab simulation