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Senior / Principal ML Scientist, Foundation Models for Life Sciences

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

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Bio & Science AIonsiteprincipal$268k–$384k
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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
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