Lila Sciences
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 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
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Chemistry Technical Program Manager This role is for a Technical Program Manager to manage the execution of chemistry experiments within an autonomous science platform. The TPM will own project plans, cross-functional dependencies, and blockers, working closely with the Chemistry domain lead and platform partners (Automation, ML, Engineering). The role focuses on operational rigor and enabling scientific work to happen at speed and scale, rather than directing scientific work itself. | — | 0 |
| Engineer II / Senior Mechatronics Engineer, Hardware & Controls Engineering This role focuses on designing, developing, and optimizing electromechanical systems by writing control software, developing HMI/GUI interfaces, prototyping, programming and tuning servo drives, and creating control algorithms. It requires experience with version control, C/C++/Python, microcontrollers, and integrating sensors/motors/drives. | — | 0 |
| SCADA Engineer This role focuses on designing, developing, and implementing SCADA and PLC control systems for automated scientific equipment, integrating robotics, and troubleshooting systems within a laboratory automation context. It is primarily an engineering role focused on industrial control systems, not directly building AI/ML models. | — | 0 |
| Life Sciences Technical Program Manager This role is for a Technical Program Manager in a Life Sciences team that uses an autonomous science platform. The TPM will own the execution layer, including project plans, cross-functional dependencies, and surfacing blockers, to enable scientific work to happen at speed and scale. The role requires strong program management experience in life sciences, coordination across stakeholders, and communication skills. While the team uses an autonomous science platform and agentic programs, the TPM's core function is program management, not direct AI/ML development. | — | 0 |
| Senior Associate, Corporate Development This role is in corporate development, focusing on evaluating scientific opportunities, building financial models, and creating partner-facing materials. It requires strong financial modeling and analytical skills, with experience in investment banking, private equity, or venture capital. While the company mentions AI, this role is not directly involved in building or deploying AI/ML models. | — | 0 |
| Manager / Senior Manager, Human Resources Manager / Senior Manager, Human Resources at Lila Sciences, supporting HRBP team with people programs, employee relations, and culture building as the organization scales. Requires 5-7 years of HR experience, with at least 2 in an HRBP or generalist role. Bonus for experience in biotech, AI, or deeptech, and startup environments. Role involves partnering with managers, coaching, driving HR programs, and identifying trends. | — | 0 |
| Senior Manager, Human Resources Senior HR Manager to join the HRBP team and serve as a trusted people partner to assigned managers and client groups. Will lead execution of core people programs, advise managers on employee relations and team effectiveness, and help build a strong, consistent culture as the organization scales. Requires 7-9 years of HR experience, with at least 3 years in an HRBP, HR generalist, or client-facing HR role. Familiarity with California employment law is a plus. Experience supporting technical or scientific organizations, particularly in biotech, AI, or deeptech, and comfort using AI tools to improve and scale people processes and programs are bonuses. | — | 0 |
| Director, Federal Strategy and Capture, Government Partnerships Director of Federal Strategy & Capture role focused on converting senior agency relationships and policy fluency into government partnerships and funding wins. This role operates at the front end of capture, influencing funding opportunities and building Lila's federal capture function. | — | 0 |
| Manager / Senior Manager, Finance, Revenue Accounting This role is for a Revenue Manager within the finance function, responsible for the operational execution of revenue accounting for complex agreements, ensuring accurate and timely revenue processes, partner reporting, and billing operations. It involves translating contract terms into operational workflows, applying accounting principles, leading close and reporting activities, managing partner billing, and improving revenue processes and systems. | — | 0 |
| Senior Accountant Senior Accountant role focused on scaling and refining financial operations, owning core accounting functions, implementing processes, and ensuring accurate financial reporting to support strategic decisions during a period of rapid growth and innovation at Lila Sciences, a company redefining the future of science. | — | 0 |
| Scientist I/II, Organic Chemistry This role focuses on organic chemistry, developing and optimizing chemical transformations for small molecule synthesis. It involves high-throughput experimentation, reaction workup, and analytical characterization, collaborating with AI/computational teams to build efficient chemistry workflows. | — | 0 |
| Scientist I/II, Process Chemistry Develop and apply modern process chemistry approaches to support Discovery Chemistry efforts, focusing on reaction/reactor engineering, process design, high-throughput experimentation, and digitalized chemistry workflows for small molecules. This role requires a hands-on scientist with strong foundations in synthetic and process chemistry, an engineering mindset, and experience building practical, scalable, and data-rich experimental workflows. | — | 0 |
| Principal Software Engineer, Instrument Simulations This role is for a Principal Software Engineer focused on architecting and leading the development of a laboratory automation platform. The core responsibility involves designing simulation infrastructure and integration layers that connect AI-driven experimental design with physical robotic systems. While the role interacts with AI-driven design, the primary focus is on the engineering of the simulation and integration platform, not the direct development or deployment of AI models themselves. | — | 0 |
| Senior Specialist / Manager, Boomi Developer, Business Systems This role is for a Boomi Developer responsible for designing, building, and supporting integrations between core business systems using Boomi AtomSphere. The role involves end-to-end integration delivery, including requirements, mapping, deployment, monitoring, and support, with a focus on procure-to-pay and onboarding/offboarding workflows. It requires proficiency in API design, data transformation, and CI/CD for integration deployments. | — | 0 |
| Contractor, Administrative Coordinator Administrative Coordinator to provide operational and administrative support to the Government Affairs team in Washington, D.C. This role is the operational backbone of the team, ensuring the Government Affairs office can focus on its core efforts. The ideal candidate is a self-starter who thrives in a fast-paced, politically dynamic environment and exercises sound judgment and discretion at all times. This role requires 5 days a week in office in Washington, DC. | — | 0 |
| Head of Supply Chain & Strategic Sourcing Head of Supply Chain & Strategic Sourcing to design and scale the function responsible for procurement, vendor management, inventory, and payments for scientific equipment, lab operations, consumables, and technology infrastructure, working closely with R&D, engineering, and AI research teams. | — | 0 |
| Director, Facilities Director of Facilities to lead the day-to-day and long-term management of multiple facilities, owning a scalable facilities strategy, driving safety and compliance, and overseeing budgets, capital planning, vendor governance, and KPI reporting. This role is a cross-functional, cross-site leadership position responsible for building and growing a world-class facilities team. | — | 0 |
| Strategic Events Lead Develop and lead a global external events function for an AI company, focusing on strategy, programming, and execution to drive pipeline, relationships, talent, and brand. | — | 0 |
| Vice President, Head of Marketing This role is for a Vice President/Head of Marketing at Lila Sciences, a company focused on AI for science. The primary responsibility is to drive commercial growth, strategic partnerships, and adoption of the company's AI platform. The role involves building demand generation engines, account-based marketing, enabling partner go-to-market motions, developing segment-specific positioning, creating sales enablement materials, and producing content to support revenue and credibility. Success is measured by pipeline contribution, partner-driven opportunities, and improved credibility with enterprise scientific buyers. The role requires 10+ years of B2B marketing experience in high-consideration enterprise or technical markets, with a track record of driving pipeline and revenue outcomes, and strong instincts for complex technical products. | — | 0 |
| Principal / Senior Principal, Security Architect Lead the security architecture for cloud applications operating at FedRAMP IL5 and IL6, shaping enterprise-wide security architecture and engineering. This hands-on leadership role involves designing, implementing, and authorizing FedRAMP IL5/IL6 systems, and building reusable security platforms, patterns, and practices. | — | 0 |
| Senior Director, Cloud Security, Compliance Lead This role is responsible for the end-to-end security, governance, risk management, and regulatory compliance of Lila Sciences’ cloud environments and research workflows. The Senior Director will own cloud security architecture, policy frameworks, data protection, and compliance programs, partnering with various teams to ensure secure experimentation and maintain a robust governance program. | — | 0 |
| Staff / Principal Industrial Engineer Seeking an Industrial Engineer to design and architect the physical layout of AI Science Factories, integrating lab instrumentation and robotics for high-throughput autonomous research. This role involves spatial planning, CAD modeling, and collaboration with various engineering and science teams to create efficient and scalable factory designs. | — | 0 |
| Staff / Principal Mechanical Engineer Seeking a Staff/Principal Mechanical Engineer to design and engineer components for workcell robotics, mechanical systems, and automation in life science and physical science domains. This role involves leading complex projects, guiding multidisciplinary teams, and delivering state-of-the-art automation solutions, collaborating with AI/ML scientists and software/controls engineers. | — | 0 |
| Platform Scientist, Soft Materials Seeking Platform Scientists to ideate, prototype, and transfer new experimental concepts for AI Science Factories targeting complex and soft material systems. This role involves partnering with chemistry, materials, and AI teams to define new approaches to formulation, structure–property relationships, and performance evaluation, translating concepts into scalable experimental workflows, custom apparatus, and software-enabled systems for autonomous research. | — | 0 |
| Join Our Talent Community Lila Sciences is building Scientific Superintelligence™ to solve humankind's greatest challenges by combining advanced AI models with proprietary AI Science Factory™ instruments into an operating system for science that executes the entire scientific method autonomously, accelerating discovery at unprecedented speed, scale, and impact across medicine, materials, and energy. | — | 0 |
| Principal Engineer, Software (Enterprise Platform) | — | — |