Senior Software Engineer, Scientific System of Record
Lila Sciences · Cambridge, MA USA; San Francisco, CA USA · Alewife, Cambridge, MA · San Francisco, CA
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Bio & Science AIonsitesenior$144k–$240k
At a glance
Highlights
- Build the memory layer connecting scientific intent to physical reality.
- Create tools for automated scientific analysis and experiment planning.
- Help close the Design-Build-Test-Learn loop for autonomous science.
What they offer
- Competitive base 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
- Paid parental leave and educational assistance
- Commuter benefits and subsidized lunch program
Ideal candidate
Collaborative full-stack builder with 4-6+ years shipping production systems who thrives in fast-paced, science-driven teams and cares about reproducibility and user-centered design.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
- 4-6+ years building and deploying large-scale production systems
- Strong in frontend or backend with ability to work across the stack
- Experience designing APIs, services, and application components
- Experience with SQL and data modeling, indexing, and query optimization
- Experience operating, debugging, and tuning production software
- Track record of cross-functional collaboration and owning ambiguous problems
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