Skip to content
← Lila Sciences

ML Research Scientist, Scientific Evaluations

Lila Sciences · Cambridge, MA USA · London, UK · San Francisco, CA USA · Alewife, Cambridge, MA

Bio & Science AIonsite$176k–$304k
Apply on the lab’s site ↗

At a glance

Highlights

  • Design science evals and RL environments for frontier LLMs.
  • Build pipelines turning papers and protocols into training environments.
  • Prototype reward designs and integrate envs into training loops.

What they offer

  • Bonus potential and 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

Creative ML researcher passionate about science who thrives in ambiguity and loves turning real-world workflows into rigorous evaluations for frontier models.

Requirements

  • Experience applying ML or computation to biology, chemistry, or material sciences
  • Strong track record of creating environments or evaluations for model training
  • Experience building large, complex data pipelines for model training or production
  • Strong prototyping and coding skills, comfortable iterating quickly in Python
  • Creativity and research intuition to design experiments and navigate ambiguity
  • Solid software engineering fundamentals and shared infrastructure integration

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
More about Lila Sciences →
Apply on the lab’s site ↗

Posted · Last seen