Your Impact at LILA
Lila's Robotics team builds the autonomous robotic systems that power scientific experimentation across the company. The team's scope spans hardware, controls, software, and AI integration, with growing cross-department collaboration as the platform matures.
We're hiring a Technical Program Manager (TPM) to help keep that work organized, on schedule, and clearly communicated. You'll support engineers and partner teams by tracking projects, surfacing risks, keeping documentation current, and helping the team operate with clarity as the work scales. You'll grow into broader program ownership as you build context. The right candidate is organized, comfortable working across functions, and curious about how robotics, AI, and hardware come together.
What You'll Be Building
- Coordinate day-to-day execution of cross-functional projects within Robotics and collaborations with other Lila departments, tracking milestones, dependencies, and risks.
- Maintain clear project documentation, status updates, and meeting notes so engineers and partner teams stay aligned.
- Support the planning and kickoff of new workstreams, defining scope, timelines, and deliverables alongside team leads.
- Surface blockers early and help drive them to resolution across hardware, software, AI, and integration partners.
- Improve standard practices for project intake, prioritization, and handoffs as the Robotics portfolio scales.
- Communicate program status to Robotics leadership and cross-department stakeholders in clear, accurate, decision-ready summaries.
What You'll Need to Succeed
- Bachelor's degree or higher in a technical field, or equivalent experience.
- 2+ years of cross-department program coordination, project management, or technical operations experience.
- Experience working on advanced robotics programs (autonomous systems, manipulation, mobile robotics, or similar).
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects in parallel and keep them on schedule.
- Strong written and verbal communication; produces clear status updates, notes, and documentation without prompting.
- Comfortable working across functions with engineers, scientists, and other technical contributors.
- Genuine curiosity about how robotics, AI, and hardware-software integration come together.
Bonus Points For
- Prior exposure to robotics, hardware, or other physical engineering programs in industry or academia.
- Familiarity with project management tools and a habit of using them well.
- Experience supporting programs with technical handoffs between hardware, software, and controls teams.
- Working knowledge of robotics, AI/ML, or controls systems.
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.
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.
We’re All In
Lila Sciences is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.
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