Shift Supervisor, Research Operations
Lila Sciences · Cambridge, MA USA · Alewife, Cambridge, MA · One Charles Park, Cambridge, MA
CHECKED 15H AGO
Bio & Science AIonsitesenior$119k–$182k
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