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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
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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
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