Senior Software Engineer I/II, Back-end/Data, Robotics
Lila Sciences · Cambridge, MA USA · Alewife, Cambridge, MA
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Bio & Science AIonsitesenior$144k–$240k
At a glance
Highlights
- Build scheduling systems for autonomous labs and own core robotics services.
- Model digital twins to predict factory behavior before committing resources.
- Turn raw experimental output into trustworthy, queryable scientific 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
Ideal candidate
A systems-minded back-end builder who loves owning critical services end to end and turning complex lab operations into reliable, trustworthy data for scientists.
Requirements
- 4-8 years of back-end engineering with production services at scale
- Data engineering experience with workflow orchestrators such as Flyte or Temporal
- Data modeling across SQL PostgreSQL, S3 and lakehouse architectures
- Cloud-native delivery with containers, infrastructure as code and CI/CD
- End-to-end ownership from design through delivery, reliability and iteration
- Clear collaboration communicating tradeoffs with engineers and 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