Senior Data Engineer, Bioinformatics, Cheminformatics, Materials
Lila Sciences · San Francisco, CA USA · San Francisco, CA
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Bio & Science AIonsitesenior$144k–$240k
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