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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
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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
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