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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
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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
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