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Senior Data Engineer, Bioinformatics, Cheminformatics, Materials

Lila Sciences · San Francisco, CA USA · San Francisco, CA

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Bio & Science AIonsitesenior$144k–$240k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Turn raw lab instrument outputs into validated, analysis-ready datasets.
  • Build canonical datasets that scientists and AI researchers can trust.
  • Accelerate scientific discovery by powering AI with trustworthy data.

What they offer

  • Bonus potential
  • Generous 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 program

Ideal candidate

A data-minded problem solver who loves turning messy lab measurements into trusted datasets and partnering with scientists and AI researchers to accelerate discovery.

Requirements

  • 2-6 years experience in data engineering, bioinformatics, cheminformatics or computational science
  • Strong Python skills with typed, tested, production-quality code
  • Strong SQL skills, especially with Postgres or similar relational databases
  • Experience building ETL pipelines, data models and reusable transformations
  • Data science foundation including statistics and pandas, NumPy or similar tools
  • Experience translating noisy scientific measurements into validated datasets
  • Workflow orchestration experience, ideally Flyte, Airflow, Prefect, Dagster or Nextflow
  • Active use of AI coding tools in day-to-day engineering work

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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