Lila Sciences
AI Frontier · AI scientific discovery
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.
Currently tracking 39 active AI roles, down 40% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Agent · Engineering. Salary range $128k–$500k (avg $253k).
Lila Sciences currently has 51 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 (43%), data (22%), post-training (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 (51 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 ML Scientist, Biological Systems Seeking a Senior ML Scientist to build autonomous life science systems that connect AI reasoning, biological evidence, experimental design, and automated execution. The role involves translating scientific direction into working architectures, workflows, and evaluation methods, with a focus on rigorous reasoning about biological hypotheses, proposing experiments, and incorporating evidence to accelerate discovery. This is a hands-on role at the intersection of ML, biological reasoning, agentic systems, and experimental design. | AgentEval Gate | 9 |
| Principal Scientist / Associate Director, Agentic AI Research for Materials Science Principal Scientist / Associate Director, Agentic AI Research for Materials Science. Owns technical direction for agentic AI systems applied to materials science, setting and executing roadmaps for autonomous agents that plan, run, and interpret materials experiments. This player-coach role leads a small team, bridges foundational research and applied delivery, and ships systems for materials teams. Requires PhD, 5+ years post-PhD experience, track record of building/shipping agentic systems, deep expertise in LLMs, agentic frameworks, tool use, planning, data extraction, multi-modal data, and familiarity with materials science. Python and ML software stack proficiency with strong engineering habits are essential. Experience leading scientists/engineers is required. |
| AgentData |
| 9 |
| Co-Op, ML Scientist for Biology Research role focused on developing autonomous-science capabilities in life sciences using AI and automation. The role involves exploring reasoning models, evaluating and reinforcing agentic model behavior, developing benchmark datasets, analyzing multi-modal biological data, and prototyping workflows connecting AI reasoning with scientific feedback. | AgentEval Gate | 8 |