Engineer II/ Senior Engineer, Robotics Platform Evaluation
Lila Sciences · Cambridge, MA USA · 10 Wilson, Cambridge, MA
CHECKED 15H AGO
Bio & Science AIonsitemid-senior$94k–$158k
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