Lila Sciences jobs

Pairs an AI model with autonomous 'AI Science Factory' labs to generate hypotheses, design experiments, and run them, for materials, chemicals, and therapeutics research.

Based in Cambridge, MA, USA. 122 open roles, checked Nov 6, 2026.

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Open roles at Lila Sciences

Autonomous Science Platform (29)

• Automation Engineer I/II, Sustaining Engineering & Lab Operations · Cambridge, MA USA
• Co-Op, Targeted Non-Viral Delivery · Cambridge, MA USA
• Co-Op, SCADA Engineer · Cambridge, MA USA
• Co-Op, Electron Microscopy · Cambridge, MA USA
• Co-Op, Materials Science, Heterogeneous Catalysis · Cambridge, MA USA
• Co-Op, Cell Based Sequencing · Cambridge, MA USA
• Co-op, Mechatronics Engineer · Cambridge, MA USA
• Co-Op, Automated Systems Engineer · Cambridge, MA USA
• Co-Op, Characterization Electrodeposited Material · Cambridge, MA USA
• Platform Scientist I/II, Functional Materials Instrumentation · Cambridge, MA USA
• Engineer I, Research Operations, (1st shift) · Cambridge, MA USA
• Scientist II/Senior Scientist, Solid-State Materials · Cambridge, MA USA
• Lab Operations Specialist · Cambridge, MA USA
• Microfabrication Scientist I/II · Cambridge, MA USA
• Scientist II / Senior Scientist, Electron Diffraction Characterization · Cambridge, MA USA
• Scientist II, Silicon Photonics · Cambridge, MA USA
• Scientist I/II, X-ray Diffraction Characterization · Cambridge, MA USA
• Scientist I/II, Characterization and Composition Analysis · Cambridge, MA USA
• Senior II/Staff Mechatronics Engineer · Cambridge, MA USA
• Director, Materials AISF Program Lead · Cambridge, MA USA
• Controls Engineer II, Sustaining Engineering · Cambridge, MA USA
• Technical Program Manager, AISF · Cambridge, MA USA
• Senior Director / Vice President, Chemistry Experiment · Cambridge, MA USA
• Shift Supervisor, Research Operations · Cambridge, MA USA
• Senior Research Associate , Automated Chemistry · Cambridge, MA USA
• Scientist II/Senior Characterization Scientist, Condensed Matter · Cambridge, MA USA
• Senior Scientist, Analytical Chemistry · Cambridge, MA USA
• Staff / Principal Automated Systems Engineer · Cambridge, MA USA
• Senior Automated Systems Engineer · Cambridge, MA USA

AI (24)

• Co-op, AI for Protein Design · San Francisco, CA USA
• Co-op, Agentic and Generative Protein Design · Cambridge, MA USA; San Francisco, CA USA
• Co-Op, AI Nucleic Acid Design · San Francisco, CA USA
• Research Scientist / Research Engineer, Automated Safety · Cambridge, MA USA; London, UK; San Francisco, CA USA
• Senior / Principal Computational Biologist, AI Safety · Cambridge, MA USA; London, UK; San Francisco, CA USA
• Senior / Principal Materials Scientist, AI Safety · Cambridge, MA USA; London, UK; San Francisco, CA USA
• Staff Software Engineer, AI Safety · Cambridge, MA USA; London, UK; San Francisco, CA USA
• Manager / Senior Manager, AI Safety Data and Evaluation Program · Cambridge, MA USA; London, UK; San Francisco, CA USA
• Staff / Principal Research Engineer, AI Safety Mitigations · Cambridge, MA USA; London, UK; San Francisco, CA USA
• Staff / Principal Security Engineer, AI Safety and Security · Cambridge, MA USA; London, UK; San Francisco, CA USA
• Principal Machine Learning Engineer, Applied AI · Cambridge, MA USA; San Francisco, CA USA
• Senior / Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Applied AI · Cambridge, MA USA; San Francisco, CA USA
• Senior / Principal Chemist, AI Safety · Cambridge, MA USA; London, UK; San Francisco, CA USA
• Machine Learning Scientist I / II, Protein Design · San Francisco, CA USA
• ML Scientist I/II, AI for Protein Engineering · San Francisco, CA USA
• Scientist II/ Senior Scientist, BioML · San Francisco, CA USA
• Senior ML Scientist, AI for Protein Engineering · San Francisco, CA USA
• Senior ML Scientist, Biological Systems · San Francisco, CA USA
• Senior/Principal ML Scientist, Translational Biology · San Francisco, CA USA
• Senior / Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Applied AI · Cambridge, MA USA; San Francisco, CA USA
• Technical Program Manager, AI Data · Cambridge, MA USA; San Francisco, CA USA
• Senior / Principal ML Scientist, Foundation Models for Life Sciences · San Francisco, CA USA
• Software Engineer, AI Platform · Cambridge, MA USA
• Senior / Engineer II, AI Lab Research Engineer · Cambridge, MA USA; San Francisco, CA USA

Corporate Development (23)

• Co-Op, Finance · Cambridge, MA USA
• Technical Recruiter, AI Research · Cambridge, MA USA; San Francisco, CA USA
• Specialist / Senior Procurement Specialist · Cambridge, MA USA
• Contractor, P2P Specialist · Cambridge, MA USA
• Director, Product Marketing, Life Sciences · Cambridge, MA USA
• Director, Enterprise Account Management, Physical Sciences · Cambridge, MA USA
• Director, Enterprise Account Management, Life Sciences · Cambridge, MA USA
• Supply Chain Demand Planner · Cambridge, MA USA
• Senior Product Designer II / Staff Product Designer · Cambridge, MA USA
• Senior Manager, Scientific Discovery Capacity Planning · Cambridge, MA USA
• Finance Business Partner, AI & Software · Cambridge, MA USA
• Associate Director / Director, Strategic Finance · Cambridge, MA USA
• Research Product Manager, Fine-tuning · Cambridge, MA USA; San Francisco, CA USA
• Director/ Senior Director, Product, Materials Chemistry · Cambridge, MA USA
• Research Product Manager, Post Training · Cambridge, MA USA; San Francisco, CA USA
• Portfolio Manager, Government Partnerships (DARPA & ARPA-H) · Cambridge, MA USA
• Associate Director / Director, Customer Program Management, Physical Sciences · Cambridge, MA USA
• (Senior) Director, Portfolio Strategy, Life Sciences · Cambridge, MA USA
• Head of Software Product · Cambridge, MA USA; San Francisco, CA USA
• Manager / Senior Manager, Capital Equipment Accounting · Cambridge, MA USA; San Francisco, CA USA
• Manager, Revenue Accounting · Cambridge, MA USA
• Associate Director / Director, Customer Program Management, Life Sciences · Cambridge, MA USA
• Director of Product, Life Sciences (Chemistry) · Cambridge, MA USA

Software (20)

• Staff/Principal Engineer, Search & Retrieval · San Francisco, CA USA
• Senior Manager, Scientific System of Record · Cambridge, MA USA
• Manager / Senior Technical Program Manager · Cambridge, MA USA
• Associate Director/Director, Inference Engineering · Cambridge, MA USA; San Francisco, CA USA
• Staff Engineer, Enterprise Externalization · San Francisco, CA USA
• Senior Data Engineer, Bioinformatics, Cheminformatics, Materials · San Francisco, CA USA
• Associate Director, App · Cambridge, MA USA; San Francisco, CA USA
• Senior Director, Software Development, Test Automation · San Francisco, CA USA
• Principal Engineer, Software (Enterprise Platform) · San Francisco, CA USA
• Senior Software Engineer, Scientific System of Record · Cambridge, MA USA; San Francisco, CA USA
• Staff Engineer, Data Platform · Cambridge, MA USA; San Francisco, CA USA
• Senior Software Engineer, App · Cambridge, MA USA; San Francisco, CA USA
• Senior Software Engineer, Data · Cambridge, MA USA; San Francisco, CA USA
• Principal Software Engineer, App · Cambridge, MA USA; San Francisco, CA USA
• Senior II/ Staff Software Engineer, Platform Operations · San Francisco, CA USA
• Senior Director, Data Platform Engineering · San Francisco, CA USA
• Staff/ Principal Software Engineer, Scientific System of Record · Cambridge, MA USA; San Francisco, CA USA
• Principal Software Engineer, Applied AI · Cambridge, MA USA; San Francisco, CA USA
• Staff Forward Deployed Engineer, Physical Sciences (Level Flexible) · Cambridge, MA USA; San Francisco, CA USA
• Staff Forward Deployed Engineer, Life Sciences · Cambridge, MA USA; San Francisco, CA USA

Physical Sciences AI (9)

• Co-Op, AI-Driven Equation Discovery · Cambridge, MA USA; San Francisco, CA USA
• Co-Op, Bayesian Methods for Complex Decision Making · Cambridge, MA USA; San Francisco, CA USA
• Co-Op, Structuring Scientific Data for Discovery · Cambridge, MA USA; San Francisco, CA USA
• Co-Op, Reaction Prediction & Benchmarking · Cambridge, MA USA; San Francisco, CA USA
• Co-Op, Agentic Simulations for Materials Science · Cambridge, MA USA; San Francisco, CA USA
• Research Engineer, Scientific Data & Workflow Infrastructure · Cambridge, MA USA; San Francisco, CA USA
• Research Scientist, Computational Condensed Matter Physics · Cambridge, MA USA
• Principal Scientist / Associate Director, Agentic AI Research for Materials Science · Cambridge, MA USA; San Francisco, CA USA
• Machine Learning Engineer, Physical Sciences AI · Cambridge, MA USA; San Francisco, CA USA

Business Operations (8)

• Director / Senior Director, Intellectual Property, Life Sciences · Cambridge, MA USA; San Francisco, CA USA
• Co-Op, Editorial Content · Cambridge, MA USA
• Associate Director/Director, Frontier and AI Product Counsel · Cambridge, MA USA; San Francisco, CA USA
• Principal Network Engineer · Cambridge, MA USA
• Staff IT Systems Engineer, Endpoints · Cambridge, MA USA
• Principal Engineer, AI Security · Cambridge, MA USA
• Associate Director/Director, Commercial Counsel · Cambridge, MA USA; San Francisco, CA USA
• Manager / Senior Manager, Multimedia · Cambridge, MA USA

Physical Intelligence (8)

• Co-Op, Robot Perception & State Estimation · Cambridge, MA USA
• Senior II/ Staff Robotics Platform Evaluation Engineer · Cambridge, MA USA
• Contractor, Robotics Lab Technician · Cambridge, MA USA
• Senior Engineer II, Robotics Mechanical Design · Cambridge, MA USA
• Engineer II/ Senior Engineer, Robotics Platform Evaluation · Cambridge, MA USA
• Robotics Operations Engineer I, First Shift · Cambridge, MA USA
• Senior Human Factors Engineer I/II, Robotics · Cambridge, MA USA
• Principal Software Engineer, Instrument Simulations · Cambridge, MA USA

People & Recruiting (1)

• Join Our Talent Community · Cambridge, MA USA; San Francisco, CA USA

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