Your Impact at LILA
As a Scientist on our Physical Sciences team, you will contribute to the development of cutting-edge flow chemistry workflows. You’ll help design, build, and optimize flow chemistry platforms that integrate real-time analytics, advanced control strategies, and AI-driven decision-making. In this role, you’ll work closely with systems engineers and AI scientists to help expand autonomous chemistry capabilities and accelerate discovery at scale.
What You'll Be Building** **
- Design & Commission: Architect and develop versatile flow chemistry platforms for autonomous synthesis, ensuring seamless integration with the Lila platform.
- Integrate & Scale: Build, control, and optimize flow reactors and inline analytics. Interface flow chemistry platforms with robotic and sensing systems.
- Workflow Optimization: Tune flow chemistry platform design and software pipelines for high-throughput closed-loop experimentation with rich metadata capture.
- Closed-Loop Execution: Collaborate with AI teams to run iterative experiments in real time, enabling fast optimization and discovery cycles.
- Collaboration & Documentation: Work with chemists, material scientists, engineers, and data scientists to document systems, share insights, and refine best practices in autonomous flow chemistry.
What You’ll Need to Succeed** **
- Ph.D. or M.S. in Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, or a related field.
- ≥ 1 years (for PhD, 4+ years for M.S ) of hands-on experience in flow chemistry, microfluidics, or microreaction engineering.
- ≥ 1 years of experience with automation, instrumentation, and integrating real-time analytics into experimental workflows.
- Strong background in homogeneous chemical catalysis and organic synthesis.
- Proficiency in Python for scripting, data analysis, and instrument control.
- Excellent problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills.
**Bonus Points For **
- Prior experience working in an autonomous or self-driving lab chemical lab environment driving organic chemistry transformations.
- Familiarity with cloud-based instrumentation control and orchestration.
- Hands-on experience with AI-driven experimental design or Bayesian optimization.
- Background in scaling workflows from proof-of-concept to routine, high-throughput operation.
- Contributions to open-source lab automation or scientific software projects.
Compensation
We offer competitive base compensation with bonus potential and generous early-stage equity. Your final offer will reflect your background, expertise, and expected impact.
U.S. Benefits. Full-time U.S. employees receive a comprehensive benefits program including medical, dental, and vision coverage; employer-paid life and disability insurance; flexible time off with generous company wide holidays; paid parental leave; an educational assistance program; commuter benefits, including bike share memberships for office based employees; and a company subsidized lunch program.
International Benefits. Full-time employees outside the U.S. receive a comprehensive benefits program tailored to their region. USD salary ranges apply only to U.S.-based positions; international salaries are set to local market.
Expected Base Salary Range
$108,000—$144,000 USD
About LILA
Lila Sciences is building Scientific Superintelligence™ to solve humankind's greatest challenges. We believe science is the most inspiring frontier for AI. Rather than hard-coding expert knowledge into tools, LILA builds systems that can learn for themselves.
LILA combines 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. Learn more at www.lila.ai.
Guided by our core values of truth, trust, curiosity, grit, and velocity, we move with startup speed while tackling problems of historic importance. If this sounds like an environment you'd love to work in, even if you don't meet every qualification listed above, we encourage you to apply.
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