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Shift Supervisor, Research Operations

Lila Sciences · Cambridge, MA USA · Alewife, Cambridge, MA · One Charles Park, Cambridge, MA

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Bio & Science AIonsitesenior$119k–$182k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Own reliable execution of automated lab workflows powering scientific discovery.
  • Serve as shift technical lead ensuring run quality and system health.
  • Partner across science and engineering to improve workflow robustness.

What they offer

  • Bonus potential and generous early-stage equity
  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Employer-paid life and disability insurance
  • Flexible time off with company-wide holidays
  • Paid parental leave
  • Educational assistance program
  • Commuter benefits and subsidized lunch

Ideal candidate

An operations-minded lab leader who thrives on ownership and process discipline and loves coaching energetic teams to do their best work in a fast-paced, high-throughput automated environment.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of hands-on experience in lab automation, research operations, high-throughput screening, or related technical environment
  • Prior formal people-management experience with direct reports in a laboratory, technical, or operations environment
  • Experience operating and troubleshooting automated liquid handling platforms (Hamilton, Lynx, Echo, or similar)
  • Experience leading and coordinating workflow execution in a team setting
  • Strong foundational knowledge of assay design, execution, and interpretation
  • Experience identifying operational issues, performing root-cause investigation, and driving issues to resolution
  • Clear, concise communicator able to collaborate across Research Operations, scientific, engineering, and LabOps teams

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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