Staff Forward Deployed Engineer, Life Sciences
Lila Sciences · Cambridge, MA USA; San Francisco, CA USA · One Charles Park, Cambridge, MA
CHECKED 15H AGO
Bio & Science AIonsitestaff$192k–$256k
At a glance
Highlights
- Build custom agentic scientific workflows integrated with industrial instruments.
- Ship production AI-powered solutions in days while embedded with biotech teams.
- Create intuitive interfaces making complex AI capabilities accessible to scientists.
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 company holidays
- Paid parental leave
- Educational assistance program
- Commuter benefits and subsidized lunch
Ideal candidate
Customer-obsessed generalist with a science background who thrives in ambiguity, learns new domains fast, and loves embedding with customers to ship high-impact AI solutions quickly.
Requirements
- Background in biology, molecular science, or related scientific field
- Ability to communicate effectively with external partners and internal product and technical leaders
- Experience with data engineering, ETL pipelines, and working with complex datasets
- Strong full-stack development skills across backend, frontend, and data layers
- Exceptional problem-solving abilities and comfort with ambiguous requirements
- Knack for product discovery and passing well-defined customer requirements to product teams
- Willingness to travel to customer sites for engineering deployments
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