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Senior / Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Applied AI

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

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Bio & Science AIonsiteSenior / Staff$180k–$298k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Shape AI models for real customer scientific workflows.
  • Run post-training and eval loops to improve model reliability.
  • Build autonomous science OS to accelerate discovery at scale.

What they offer

  • Competitive base compensation with bonus potential
  • Generous early-stage equity
  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Employer-paid life and disability insurance
  • Flexible time off with generous company-wide holidays
  • Paid parental leave
  • Educational assistance program

Ideal candidate

A hands-on ML engineer who thrives on ambiguous, high-stakes model problems and turning customer feedback into reliable product behavior. Curious about science and motivated by real-world impact.

Requirements

  • 1-2 years of hands-on post-training experience (SFT, RL methods such as DPO/PPO/GRPO) and evaluation system design
  • Strong software engineering skills in Python and modern ML frameworks like PyTorch
  • Demonstrated ability to debug ambiguous, high-stakes model behavior using data, traces, logs and qualitative feedback
  • Deep familiarity with large language models, multi-modal models, or agentic AI systems
  • Clear communication skills for translating customer needs and explaining complex model behavior

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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