Senior / Engineer II, AI Lab Research Engineer
Lila Sciences · Cambridge, MA USA; San Francisco, CA USA · One Charles Park, Cambridge, MA
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Bio & Science AIonsitesenior$148k–$240k
At a glance
Highlights
- Build agentic AI systems that reason across multi-step scientific problems.
- Turn natural language intent into executable steps for lab instruments.
- Build benchmarks and telemetry to measure progress toward science goals.
What they offer
- Competitive base compensation with bonus potential
- Generous early-stage equity
- Medical, dental and vision coverage
- Flexible time off with generous company-wide holidays
- Paid parental leave and educational assistance program
- Commuter benefits and company-subsidized lunch program
Ideal candidate
Quantitatively trained scientist-engineer energized by cross-functional collaboration and turning AI advances into real lab discovery for health, climate, and sustainability.
Requirements
- PhD or Masters in a quantitative discipline with strong background in machine learning and one domain of science
- Strong grasp of LLMs and agent architectures and how to adapt them to domains
- Proficiency in modern ML frameworks and experience implementing scalable solutions for complex tasks
- Comfort collaborating across disciplines and interfacing with simulations and real lab systems
- remote policy
- Hybrid and on-site available depending on team needs
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