Research Scientist / Research Engineer, Automated Safety
Lila Sciences · Cambridge, MA USA; London, UK; San Francisco, CA USA · Alewife, Cambridge, MA · Europe · San Francisco, CA
Bio & Science AIonsite$180k–$298k
At a glance
Highlights
- Build automated red-teaming to probe scientific capabilities and safeguards.
- Develop safety automation to monitor risks across autonomous science workflows.
- Run capability evaluations of models and agents in simulated lab environments.
What they offer
- Bonus potential
- Generous early-stage equity
- Comprehensive benefits program
Ideal candidate
Empirically-minded researcher or engineer excited by AI safety for science, comfortable probing ambiguous failures with domain experts and turning findings into reusable assessment tools.
Requirements
- Strong empirical judgment with practical programming ability and experience with modern AI systems
- Ability to investigate ambiguous failures, design informative comparisons and communicate limitations
- Interest in scientific misuse risks and ability to collaborate with domain specialists
- Research Scientist: track record selecting research questions, developing methods and designing defensible experiments
- Research Engineer: track record building reliable research software, evaluation infrastructure or agent systems
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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