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Senior Software Engineer, App

Lila Sciences · Cambridge, MA USA; San Francisco, CA USA · Alewife, Cambridge, MA · San Francisco, CA

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

Highlights

  • Build AI-native platform carrying scientists from hypothesis to breakthrough results.
  • Design agents and interfaces that let researchers seamlessly collaborate with AI.
  • Ship tools that accelerate research timelines from months to days.

What they offer

  • Competitive base with bonus potential and early-stage equity
  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Flexible time off with company holidays
  • Paid parental leave and educational assistance

Ideal candidate

A product-minded backend-strong engineer who loves inventing AI-native experiences for science and collaborating closely with scientists and ML researchers to ship impactful tools fast.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
  • 5-8+ years building and deploying large-scale systems in production, strong in backend
  • Full stack web app experience across frontend and backend services
  • Hands-on experience using AI coding assistants to drive productivity
  • Proven cross-functional collaboration and communication with diverse audiences
  • Ownership of complex backend challenges balancing scalability and performance

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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