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
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