ML Research Scientist, Scientific Evaluations
Lila Sciences · Cambridge, MA USA · London, UK · San Francisco, CA USA · Alewife, Cambridge, MA
Bio & Science AIonsite$176k–$304k
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
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