Lilasciences
Senior / Engineer II, AI Lab Research Engineer
Cambridge, MA USA; San Francisco, CA USA. Posted 13 months ago
The role
You will build agentic AI for science, including systems for sequential decision-making and multi-step reasoning. You will also work on workflow and code generation for lab instruments and develop evaluation and reliability benchmarks.
What you will do
- Build agentic AI for science for sequential decision-making and multi-step reasoning
- Develop workflow and code generation from natural language to executable steps for lab instruments
- Create evaluation and reliability benchmarks, test suites, and telemetry
Required qualifications
- PhD or Masters in a quantitative discipline (e.g. Computer Science, Physics, Mathematics, Engineering)
- Strong background in machine learning and one domain of science (e.g. biology or materials science)
- Strong grasp of LLMs and agent architectures (planning, tool use, structured function calling, code generation)
- Proficiency in modern ML frameworks (e.g. PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX)
- Experience implementing scalable solutions for complex tasks
- Comfort collaborating across disciplines and interfacing with simulations and real lab systems
Nice to have
- Building long-horizon agents or RL for control/decision-making
- Experience with model-based or offline RL
- Designing domain-specific benchmarks and evaluation harnesses for complex scientific tasks
- Digital-twin development, calibration, and sim-to-real transfer
- Publications or open-source contributions in AI for science
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Employer-paid life and disability insurance
- Flexible time off with generous company wide holidays
- Paid parental leave
- Educational assistance program
- Commuter benefits, including bike share memberships for office based employees
- Company subsidized lunch program
About the company
Lila Sciences is building Scientific Superintelligence to solve humankind's greatest challenges. The company combines advanced AI models with proprietary AI Science Factory instruments into an operating system for science.