Senior / Principal ML Scientist, Foundation Models for Life Sciences
Lila Sciences · San Francisco, CA USA · San Francisco, CA
CHECKED 14H AGO
Bio & Science AIonsiteprincipal$268k–$384k
At a glance
Highlights
- Build large-scale training pipelines for structure prediction and co-folding models.
- Scale inference to campaign scale to accelerate automated antibody design workflows.
- Drive Lab-in-the-Loop discovery by integrating models with experimental feedback.
What they offer
- Competitive base compensation with bonus potential and early-stage equity
- Medical, dental and vision coverage
- Employer-paid life and disability insurance
- Flexible time off with company-wide holidays and paid parental leave
- Educational assistance, commuter benefits and subsidized lunch
Ideal candidate
ML systems builder who thrives at the research-to-production interface and wants to power automated scientific discovery. You care about reliability at scale and closing the loop between computation and experiment in life sciences.
Requirements
- Master's degree or higher in Computer Science, Machine Learning or related quantitative field
- Extensive hands-on experience building and operating production ML systems at scale
- Deep expertise in distributed training infrastructure including large-scale GPU clusters
- Strong software engineering fundamentals: system design, CI/CD, observability and reliability
- Proficiency in ML frameworks with training and inference performance optimization
- Demonstrated ability to drive technical direction for ML infrastructure independently
- Track record of cross-functional collaboration with research scientists
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