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Sr Principal/ Principal Software Engineer, Scientific System of Record

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

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Bio & Science AIonsiteprincipal$204k–$348k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Lead architecture for AI-driven lab execution and scientific memory layer.
  • Connect scientific intent to lab reality to close Design-Build-Test-Learn loop.
  • Build platform merging AI frameworks with lab workflows and analytics.

What they offer

  • Competitive base with bonus potential and early-stage equity
  • Medical, dental and vision coverage
  • Flexible time off with company holidays and parental leave
  • Educational assistance and commuter benefits

Ideal candidate

A technical leader with 8-15 years building large-scale systems who thrives in ambiguity at the intersection of AI, software and science and loves mentoring engineers and turning complex lab processes into elegant platforms.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
  • 8-15 years building and deploying large-scale production systems
  • Strong expertise in front-end, backend, or data modeling and system design
  • Experience designing scalable architectures, APIs and distributed data systems
  • Strong SQL plus NoSQL, vector, graph, search, or lakehouse experience
  • Experience in life sciences, ML platforms, lab or automation systems
  • Experience with observability, reliability and operational excellence
  • Technical leadership mentoring engineers from ambiguity to production

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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