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Engineer II/ Senior Engineer, Robotics Platform Evaluation

Lila Sciences · Cambridge, MA USA · 10 Wilson, Cambridge, MA

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Bio & Science AIonsitemid-senior$94k–$158k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Own robots end-to-end from unboxing to benchmark reports informing adoption.
  • Test mobile manipulators, AMRs and AGVs against production baseline.
  • Shape evaluation methodology and tooling for faster platform assessments.

What they offer

  • Bonus potential and early-stage equity
  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Employer-paid life and disability insurance
  • Flexible time off with generous company-wide holidays
  • Paid parental leave
  • Educational assistance program
  • Commuter benefits including bike share memberships
  • Company-subsidized lunch program

Ideal candidate

Hands-on systems thinker who loves working directly with hardware in the lab and turning messy test data into clear decisions. Brings production robotics experience and a drive to build rigorous, repeatable evaluation methods.

Requirements

  • Professional experience deploying robotics platforms in production, commercial, or applied R&D settings
  • Hands-on ROS2 and Nav2 experience in real deployments, not simulation alone
  • Experience with manipulation and pick-and-place, including motion planning and grasp execution
  • Experience with controls for robot arms or mobile bases
  • Experience integrating and calibrating camera or lidar perception pipelines
  • Direct experience with AMRs/AGVs or 6 to 7 DoF arms, including grippers and end effectors
  • Track record turning test results into clear, decision-ready comparisons

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
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