Jobs at Lila Sciences

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will design APIs, manage database architecture, optimize performance, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to support the Data Platform Team's backend solutions.

As a Scientist II/Senior Scientist, drive the development and implementation of characterization workflows for magnetic and superconducting materials, collaborating on high-throughput experiments integrating AI and robotics.

The Staff DevOps Engineer will design and implement infrastructure for cloud and Kubernetes environments, ensuring reliable software delivery and collaborating across teams.

Design and implement high-performance UI and APIs, manage database architecture, develop applications, and ensure system scalability and optimization while collaborating with scientists and engineers.

As Commercial Counsel, you will draft and negotiate contracts, provide legal counsel on AI and science, and build scalable legal systems.

The Director of Product will lead product strategy, manage product execution and drive innovation in drug discovery and scientific tools, ensuring alignment between customer needs and the scientific team's goals.

Collaborate with teams to design and build UI and APIs, manage database architecture, and optimize performance for lab integration and scientific workflows.

Lead end-to-end delivery for complex, technical multi-year customer partnerships in physical sciences. Own customer relationship, coordinate cross-functional teams, drive program timelines, risks, resourcing, and build scalable delivery processes, tooling, and KPIs for a new customer delivery function.

Design and build integrations for AI-driven applications, develop databases, optimize performance, collaborate with scientists, and drive large-scale systems deployment.

As a Software Engineer II, you'll design and build UI and APIs, manage databases, develop applications, optimize performance, and collaborate with teams.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will develop UIs, APIs, and databases for an AI-driven scientific platform, ensuring performance and integration with various systems. Collaborate with researchers and engineers to enhance scientific workflows and scale large systems.

Partner with the CEO to drive strategy, execution, and external engagement. Run executive operating cadence, prepare board and investor materials, oversee cross-functional initiatives, translate technical science/AI work for leadership, and ensure decisions are driven to closure. Act as a connector across the leadership team while building operational systems and standards across chiefs of staff and EAs.

Design, build, and deploy scalable laboratory automation workflows and high-throughput workcells. Collaborate with scientists, hardware, controls, and software teams to translate scientific intent into reliable systems, perform testing, FMEAs, troubleshooting, and optimization, and integrate machine vision, sensors, and AI-driven decision logic while ensuring safety, quality, and reproducibility.

Design, prototype, and integrate electromechanical systems and robotics subassemblies for lab instrumentation. Collaborate with cross-functional teams, develop firmware and controls, perform testing and debugging, and maintain technical documentation.

Provide high-impact executive support to senior leaders across commercial, product, and corporate development: manage complex calendars, coordinate meetings and materials, track commitments and follow-ups, draft executive communications, and support team operations and onsite logistics.

The VP of Engineering will lead the creation of a unified platform for lab automation, integrating AI for enhanced scientific experimentation, driving engineering initiatives, and mentoring teams across multi-disciplinary domains.

Own a public-sector portfolio (starting with DARPA and ARPA-H), build agency relationships, qualify and prioritize RFIs/RFPs/BAAs, lead opportunities from ID to award and handoff, translate Lila's science into federal narratives, and develop reusable capture playbooks to scale government partnerships and recurring funding.

Own full-cycle recruiting for commercial, corporate development, and G&A roles. Partner with senior leaders to define roles, source and screen candidates, run interview processes, advise on compensation, negotiate and close offers, and improve recruiting process and candidate experience.

Own and grow enterprise accounts in chemicals and materials by prospecting, qualifying, and closing complex R&D-focused deals. Lead cross-functional technical discovery, craft customer-facing materials and proposals, manage forecasts and CRM, and partner with product and science teams to scope high-value engagements and define repeatable GTM playbooks.

Lead program governance and cross-functional coordination for the AISF portfolio. Establish charters, roadmaps, and governance; track milestones, risks, and dependencies; run alignment sessions and executive briefings; coordinate resourcing and budgeting; and implement process improvements to scale program delivery across research, engineering, product, and operations.