Lila Sciences
AI Frontier · AI scientific discovery
Lila Sciences currently has 53 active AI-related job listings. The majority of these roles are in the agents stage, accounting for 43% of the openings. Engineering is the top function for hiring, followed by Research. The company is primarily hiring in the United States. Frequently tagged technologies include agent orchestration, model serving, and evals, suggesting a focus on agent-based AI systems and their deployment. Over the last 30 days, Lila Sciences has posted 12 new AI roles, representing a 25% decrease compared to the previous 30-day period.
AI Frontier · AI scientific discovery
Currently tracking 38 active AI roles, down 40% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Agent · Engineering. Salary range $128k–$500k (avg $253k).
Lila Sciences currently has 50 active AI-related roles in our index. The most common open titles are: AI Residency Program, Material Science (2026 Cohort), Co-Op, AI Security, Co-Op, Automation, Co-Op, Autonomous SEM, Co-Op, Data Extraction. Most positions are in Engineering and Research.
Lila Sciences's active AI hiring is concentrated in: agents (44%), post-training (20%), data (20%). These categories follow a seven-stage AI lifecycle: data, pre-training, post-training, serving infrastructure, agents, evaluation, and application.
Lila Sciences is hiring AI talent in: United States (50 roles).
Job postings at Lila Sciences most frequently mention: Materials Science, Biotech, Machine Learning, Python, Software Engineering.
In the past 30 days, Lila Sciences has posted 10 new AI-related roles. That is a -37% change versus the prior 30 days (16 → 10).
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| Senior / Lead Technical Recruiter This role is for a Senior/Lead Technical Recruiter at Lila Sciences, a company focused on AI-driven science. The recruiter will own full-cycle recruiting for engineering and AI/ML research roles, build talent pipelines, and partner with hiring managers. The role requires experience in technical recruiting, sourcing, and candidate relationship management, with a focus on AI-powered recruiting tools and methodologies. | — | 5 |
| Contractor, Technical Science Writer This role is for a Technical Science Writer / Content Creator at Lila Sciences, a company focused on building Scientific Superintelligence. The writer will translate complex scientific and technical work into accessible content for various stakeholders including customers, partners, government, investors, and future employees. Responsibilities include writing and editing articles, explainers, case studies, and multimedia scripts, adapting messaging for different audiences, leading contractor writers, and ensuring editorial quality and responsible communication. The goal is to make Lila's science and platform understandable, credible, and trustworthy. | — | 5 |
| Community & Ecosystem Growth Strategist This role focuses on growing online communities and executive presence for Lila's scientific leaders, leveraging AI agents for content creation, community engagement, and analytics. The strategist will participate in technical communities discussing AI-accelerated science and frontier technology, build relationships with influencers, and enable thought leadership. A key requirement is hands-on experience with AI agents for content workflows or community intelligence. | Agent | 5 |
| Manager / Senior Manager, Product Marketing, Physical Science Product Marketing Manager for an AI-driven materials and chemistry platform, focusing on go-to-market strategy, messaging, content creation, sales enablement, and market intelligence for physical science domains. | — | 5 |
| Manager / Senior Manager, Product Marketing, Life Science Product Marketing Manager for Life Science products at Lila Sciences, focusing on go-to-market strategy for AI-driven capabilities in areas like mRNA design and medicinal chemistry. The role involves defining product narratives, leading launch plans, creating content, and collaborating across teams to drive adoption and business impact. | — | 5 |
| Staff / Principal Automated Systems Engineer This role focuses on designing, developing, and implementing automation solutions for laboratory workflows, integrating hardware, controls, and software. It involves translating scientific objectives into technical requirements, exploring emerging technologies like machine vision and advanced sensors, and ensuring alignment with safety and regulatory standards. The role requires hands-on experience with automation, Python, CAD, hardware systems, and an understanding of AI-driven decision-making in research automation. | — | 5 |
| Senior Automated Systems Engineer Senior Automated Systems Engineer to design, develop, and implement automation solutions for laboratory workflows, focusing on building scalable, high-throughput automated workcells. The role involves translating scientific intent into reliable systems, partnering with scientists and cross-functional teams, and integrating emerging technologies like machine vision and advanced sensors. Understanding of AI-driven decision-making in research automation is required. | Agent | 5 |
| Principal Technical Program Manager This role is for a Principal Technical Program Manager at an early-stage AI company. The TPM will connect research with program execution, guide the overall program, evaluate and integrate emerging technologies, lead technical projects, manage data integrity, serve as an interface between technical and business teams, implement best practices for experimentation, develop documentation, and foster innovation. The company is building "Scientific Superintelligence™" to solve major challenges using AI models and proprietary instruments to execute the scientific method autonomously. | — | 5 |
| Scientist, Flow Chemistry Scientist role focused on developing and optimizing flow chemistry platforms that integrate real-time analytics, advanced control strategies, and AI-driven decision-making to accelerate scientific discovery. The role involves designing, building, and commissioning these platforms, integrating them with robotic and sensing systems, and collaborating with AI teams for closed-loop experimentation. | Agent | 5 |
| Senior Director, IT Infrastructure and End User Experience This role leads the strategy, design, delivery, and operation of enterprise IT infrastructure and the end-to-end employee computing experience. It covers networks, endpoints, identity, collaboration suites, and the full employee technology lifecycle, including AI enablement for the workforce. The goal is a secure, resilient, and modern technology environment that empowers employee productivity and business growth. | — | 1 |
| Associate Director / Director of Program Management, Life Sciences This role is for a Program Manager in the Life Sciences sector at Lila Sciences. The primary focus is on planning, executing, and delivering therapeutic programs by managing internal science, engineering, and automation teams. The role also involves serving as an operational interface with external pharmaceutical and biotech partners, ensuring smooth communication and deliverables. While the company utilizes AI and ML in its drug discovery platform, this specific role is centered on program management and operational execution rather than direct AI/ML development or research. | — | 1 |
| Portfolio Manager, Government Partnerships (DARPA & ARPA-H) This role is for a Portfolio Manager focused on Government Partnerships, specifically with DARPA and ARPA-H, to translate Lila's AI-driven scientific capabilities into compelling engagements and secure funding. The role involves managing agency relationships, building a pipeline of opportunities, leading engagements from identification to award, and contributing to a reusable capture playbook. | — | 0 |
| Platform Scientist, Soft Materials Seeking a Platform Scientist with a focus on soft materials to ideate, prototype, and transfer new experimental concepts for AI Science Factories. This role involves defining new approaches to formulation, structure-property relationships, and performance evaluation, and translating these concepts into scalable experimental workflows, custom apparatus, and software-enabled systems for autonomous research. | — | 0 |
| Engineer II / Senior Mechanical Engineer, Sustaining Engineering Mechanical Engineer II/Senior Engineer on Sustaining Engineering team to improve reliability, uptime, and lifecycle performance of deployed bench-scale robotics and mechanical systems. Focuses on sustaining and improving fielded robotic workcells, with ownership across troubleshooting, root cause analysis, preventive maintenance, design fixes, and targeted reliability improvements. Supports mechanical systems used across life science and physical science automation. | — | 0 |
| AISF Operational Systems Coordinator This role supports the operationalization of AI Science Factory (AISF) engineering systems infrastructure, focusing on lifecycle systems, deployment workflows, engineering standards, and operational infrastructure to scale AI Science Factories. It involves cross-functional coordination with engineering, robotics, software, and IT/OT teams to establish scalable operational foundations. The role emphasizes lightweight, usable, and consistently adopted operational standards, rather than traditional quality administration or heavy compliance management. | — | 0 |
| Shift Supervisor, Research Operations This role is for a Shift Supervisor in Research Operations at Lila Sciences, focusing on the reliable execution of automated lab workflows. The supervisor will serve as the technical lead for engineers, ensuring quality and operational performance, troubleshooting issues, and managing shift handoffs. The role requires experience in lab automation, operating automated liquid handling platforms, and leading teams in a fast-paced environment. | — | 0 |
| Senior/Principal Scientist, Small Molecule Therapeutics Lead early hit identification efforts in small molecule therapeutics by leveraging expertise in DNA-encoded libraries (DEL) and complementary screening technologies to discover and validate novel chemical matter. Partner cross-functionally with Chemistry, Computational, and Automation teams to develop and scale a small molecule screening platform. Drive hit progression through assay cascades and secure protein sources for characterization. | — | 0 |
| Contractor, Loading Dock Manager This role manages the day-to-day receiving operations of a loading dock, coordinating inbound deliveries, inspecting shipments, maintaining the dock area, and communicating with carriers, vendors, and internal lab teams. It requires experience in receiving/shipping operations, strong communication, and physical ability to handle shipments. Bonus points for life sciences experience and handling specialized shipments. | — | 0 |
| Co-op, Materials Science, Electrosynthesis This role supports Lila's electrosynthesis program by conducting experiments, characterizing materials, and generating experimental data. The role collaborates with engineering, software, and data teams to refine experimental workflows and contributes to building autonomous laboratory workflows in electrochemical sciences. | — | 0 |
| Chief of Staff to the CFO Chief of Staff to the CFO role at Lila Sciences, a company building Scientific Superintelligence. The role focuses on supporting the CFO across financial, people, operating, and strategic priorities, ensuring key workstreams are prioritized and advanced. Responsibilities include shaping the CFO's operating cadence, preparing materials for leadership discussions, tracking projects, and coordinating across various departments. Requires 7+ years of experience in a similar role, strong business judgment, and excellent communication skills. Bonus points for experience supporting a CFO/COO and familiarity with startup environments and relevant tools. | — | 0 |
| (Associate) Director, Customer Program Management, Physical Sciences This role is for a Customer Program Manager at Lila Sciences, a physical sciences company. The primary responsibility is to lead the delivery of customer partnerships, acting as the main point of contact and operational owner for complex, multi-year engagements. The role involves managing customer relationships, driving cross-functional alignment across technical teams (including AI/ML researchers), and building the infrastructure for customer delivery as the company scales. While the role interacts with AI/ML researchers, it is not an AI/ML development role itself. | — | 0 |
| Contractor, Recruiting Coordinator Contractor, Recruiting Coordinator role focused on managing interview logistics, improving recruiting processes, and ensuring data integrity within Greenhouse and Outlook. Requires 2+ years of experience in recruiting coordination or talent operations, with proficiency in ATS systems and strong organizational skills. | — | 0 |
| Lead Recruiter, Go to Market Lead Recruiter for a company building Scientific Superintelligence. This role focuses on end-to-end recruiting for go-to-market, corporate development, and other business functions. The recruiter will partner with senior leaders to translate strategy into hiring plans and manage searches for talent. | — | 0 |
| Senior Engineer I / Technical Program Manager, Hardware & Controls Engineering This role is for a Senior Engineer I / Technical Program Manager within the Hardware and Controls Engineering team. The primary focus is on driving the execution of multidisciplinary hardware, controls, and software platform programs. Responsibilities include program-level coordination, project management (milestones, procurement, resourcing, vendor coordination), and cross-functional alignment to ensure ambitious engineering efforts stay on track. The role involves managing complex engineering programs from concept through commissioning in regulated and industrial environments, ensuring alignment with product architectures and IT standards, and overseeing vendor performance. Experience in systems integration, quality management systems, and managing multidisciplinary teams is required. While the company is AI-focused, this specific role is centered on program management for hardware and controls engineering, not direct AI/ML model development or research. | — | 0 |
| Co-Op, Software Product Management This role supports software and workflow improvements for a scientific software platform, translating user needs into product requirements and owning small features from discovery to delivery. It involves shadowing users, grooming backlogs, writing user stories, and partnering with science, product, and engineering teams. | — | 0 |
| Co-Op, Electrical Engineer Seeking an Electrical Engineering Co-Op to join the Hardware & Controls Engineering team, contributing to electrical systems for automated scientific equipment. Responsibilities include electrical design, prototyping, documentation, testing, and integration, working in a collaborative R&D environment to build practical engineering skills. | — | 0 |
| Contractor, Maintenance Engineering Technician I/II This role is for a Maintenance Engineering Technician responsible for executing preventive maintenance, troubleshooting, and calibration of instruments within Lila's AI Science Factories. The focus is on ensuring instrument uptime and performance in a highly automated lab environment, supporting scientific discovery. | — | 0 |
| Manager/Senior Manager, Corporate Development This role is in Corporate Development, focusing on evaluating and advancing scientific opportunities by building financial models, analytical frameworks, and partner-facing materials. It requires strong financial modeling, analytical skills, and the ability to work in ambiguous, fast-paced environments. The role is not directly involved in building or shipping AI/ML models or systems. | — | 0 |
| Co-Op, Building Robotics Skills for Automating Science This role focuses on building software infrastructure for robots to run scientific workflows autonomously. It involves developing robotic skill libraries, improving simulation testing, and contributing to systems that manage work handoffs between robots and the broader autonomous science platform. The output is production-quality software for lab environments. | — | 0 |
| Co-op, Mechanical Engineer Mechanical Engineering Co-Op role focused on designing, building, and testing hardware systems for autonomous scientific discovery, working alongside AI/ML researchers and engineers. | — | 0 |
| Co-Op, PS Experiment, LNP Formulations Seeking an Intern to join the Chemistry team, focusing on the design and development of microfluidic platforms for synthesizing and characterizing lipid nanoparticles (LNPs). The role involves formulation, characterization assays, and collaboration with data science teams for therapeutic development. | — | 0 |
| Co-Op, Lab IT/OT Security Engineer This role supports the administration, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement of computing infrastructure within Lila Sciences' laboratory environments, focusing on the intersection of corporate IT and operational technology (OT). Responsibilities include managing workstations, edge compute, lab-area networking, and instrument-adjacent systems, resolving IT incidents, supporting laboratory instruments, maintaining asset records, contributing to standardized device catalogs, and documenting procedures. The role requires foundational knowledge of Windows administration and networking, familiarity with helpdesk workflows, and strong communication skills. | — | 0 |
| Senior Research Associate, Antibody Display This role supports the development and execution of display workflows for antibody and biologic development, generating high-dimensional datasets to advance scientific super intelligence. It involves assay optimization, collaboration with various scientific and engineering teams, and utilizing techniques like MACS, FACS, and NGS data analysis. | — | 0 |
| Electrical Engineer I/II Electrical Engineer I/II to contribute to the design and deployment of electrical systems in automated scientific equipment, applying core engineering principles to support electrical systems design, rapid prototyping, and cross-system integration, while collaborating within multi-functional teams to advance laboratory automation. | — | 0 |
| Scientist II, Mechanics & Extreme Materials Scientist II role focused on driving closed-loop learning for extreme materials (coatings, metal alloys) within an autonomous science platform. Responsibilities include defining experimental methods, integrating characterization outputs into ML training datasets, and leading experimental design. Requires PhD in a relevant field, expertise in mechanical and microstructural characterization, and a track record in developing performance-driven materials. Bonus points for experience with autonomous workflows and ML-guided design. | — | 0 |
| Senior Research Associate , Automated Chemistry This role focuses on hands-on high throughput experimentation using automated platforms for chemical synthesis, reaction optimization, and product screening. It involves developing and deploying integrated workflows and automation engineering solutions, troubleshooting instrument errors, and collaborating with scientists and engineers. The role requires a background in chemistry or a related field, experience in wet lab environments, and familiarity with automation and chemical handling. | — | 0 |
| Co-op, Protein Sciences This role focuses on cell culture and cell lysis for protein expression, maintenance and optimization of a cell-free platform, and generating quality control data. It involves laboratory experience, cell culture techniques, and data record keeping. While AI is mentioned as a bonus, the core responsibilities are in biological sciences and laboratory operations. | — | 0 |
| Engineer II /Senior Software Engineer, Simulation Software Engineer to build and maintain a discrete event simulation platform that serves as a fast, lightweight complement to high-fidelity robotics simulations. This platform will be the primary testbed for iterating on scheduling strategies, fleet coordination algorithms, and capacity planning, exercising the same core decision-making code that runs in production. | — | 0 |
| Senior Research Associate/Associate Scientist, Platform Scientist This role focuses on building AI-driven automated instruments for solid-state materials processing and characterization, integrating hardware and software to accelerate scientific discovery. The responsibilities include designing, constructing, and integrating automated experimental platforms, developing end-to-end software stacks, and analyzing instrument data to validate performance and support research initiatives. | — | 0 |
| Contractor, Support Engineer I, Automation (2nd shift) This role supports the AI Science Factory (AISF), an automated platform for drug discovery and bioengineering. The contractor will monitor and maintain workcells, triage issues, recover stalled runs, perform routine maintenance, and document shift events. The role requires troubleshooting electro-mechanical and software systems in a second-shift operation. | — | 0 |
| Contractor, Facility Layout & 3D Modeling Specialist Contractor role focused on creating and maintaining 3D SketchUp models for laboratory facilities, supporting design reviews, spatial planning, and workcell layout within an autonomous science platform company. This role translates facility design intent and operational constraints into accurate 3D models, coordinating with engineers, architects, and operations leads. | — | 0 |
| Lab IT & OT Systems Administrator This role is responsible for the day-to-day administration, troubleshooting, and improvement of computing infrastructure within Lila Sciences' laboratory environments, focusing on the layer between corporate IT and operational technology. It involves managing workstations, edge compute, lab networking, and instrument-adjacent systems to ensure reliable autonomous science operations. The position will also contribute to defining standards and building playbooks for the IT/OT convergence program. | — | 0 |
| Lab Operations Specialist I (Contract) This role supports second-shift operations within AI Science Factory (AISF) environments, focusing on maintaining laboratory readiness, managing material flow, and ensuring laboratory systems are operational for scientific workflows and automation platforms. It involves routine operational tasks, troubleshooting, and cross-functional collaboration. | — | 0 |
| Contractor, Senior Research Associate, Cell Culture Operations Contractor, Senior Research Associate, Cell Culture Operations at Lila Sciences. Responsible for day-to-day execution and maintenance of mammalian cell culture activities, managing cell banks, performing flow cytometry, authoring SOPs, and supporting automation of cell culture workflows. Requires B.S. or M.S. with 2-3+ years of experience in cell culture and flow cytometry. | — | 0 |
| Associate / Engineer I, ResOps, Synthesis The Associate / Engineer I, ResOps, Synthesis role at Lila Sciences focuses on hands-on materials synthesis and characterization within a high-throughput Research Operations team. This role involves preparing reagents, following SOPs, monitoring workflow performance, and collaborating with scientists and engineers. It requires a Bachelor's degree in a relevant scientific or engineering field and experience in wet lab environments, chemical handling, and materials synthesis. Bonus points are given for experience with specific materials, high-throughput environments, troubleshooting synthesis tools, and automated workflows. | — | 0 |
| Associate / Engineer I, ResOps, Formulations and Characterization This role is for an Associate Engineer focused on hands-on material formulation preparation and characterization in a high-throughput research operations team. The responsibilities include wet-lab synthesis, reagent preparation, rheology and mechanical testing, data recording, and process improvement, within a shift-based environment. The company mentions "Scientific Superintelligence™" and "AI Science Factory™" but the core responsibilities of this role are in traditional lab operations and materials science, not AI/ML model development or deployment. | — | 0 |
| Senior Engineer II / Staff Engineer, Electromechanical Technician This role is for an Electromechanical Technician who will be responsible for building, assembling, and troubleshooting custom automated instruments, workcells, and experimental equipment to support frontier research in life and physical sciences. The technician will work from designs provided by engineering, perform mechanical and electrical assembly, participate in system integration and debugging, and provide feedback to engineering teams. The role requires an Associate's degree or equivalent, strong mechanical and electrical skills, familiarity with automation components, and the ability to read technical drawings. | — | 0 |
| Director / Senior Director, Tax Seeking a Tax Director/Senior Director to build and lead Lila Sciences' tax function, establishing tax strategy, infrastructure, and compliance across federal, state, local, and international jurisdictions. This role will optimize tax position, manage compliance and reporting, develop tax planning strategies, lead ASC 740 accounting, and partner on tax implications of transactions. | — | 0 |
| Project Manager, Facilities Management Project Manager for Facilities Management at Lila Sciences, responsible for the end-to-end delivery of capital projects including lab buildouts, HVAC upgrades, and new site development. This role supports the company's research operations by managing project lifecycles, vendor relationships, and ensuring projects are delivered safely, on time, and within budget. The role requires experience in facilities capital projects, particularly in technical or laboratory environments, and strong project management skills. | — | 0 |
| Staff DevOps Engineer, Software, Product Operations The Staff/Principal DevOps Engineer will drive the design, implementation, and optimization of infrastructure and delivery platforms, bridging platform engineering, SRE, and DevOps. This role focuses on building scalable, automated systems for fast, reliable software delivery in cloud and Kubernetes environments, collaborating with various engineering and scientific teams. Responsibilities include building Kubernetes systems, CI/CD pipelines, IaC with Terraform, AWS cloud infrastructure, platform tooling, reliability engineering, software supply chain practices, and QA/testing infrastructure, with automation in Python or Go. | — | 0 |