Co-Op, IT/OT Security Analyst

The role

This co-op works on building a security program for autonomous science facilities. The role spans OT asset visibility, vulnerability management, SOC integration, and program build.

What you will do

• Own day-to-day OT asset discovery and reconciliation
• Prioritize vulnerabilities across IT/OT environments
• Coordinate remediation with automation engineering
• Integrate OT and network telemetry into the SIEM
• Triage alerts and supply OT context to the SOC team
• Track threat intelligence relevant to lab automation and biotech
• Convert findings into detections and written briefings
• Build program artifacts like asset intake processes and segmentation documentation

Required qualifications

• Pursuing a degree in cybersecurity, computer science, information technology, network engineering, or a related field
• Working knowledge of TCP/IP networking: VLANs, subnetting, routing and switching basics, firewall concepts
• Comfort on the command line (Windows and Linux)
• Basic scripting in Python or PowerShell
• Strong written communication skills

Nice to have

• Exposure to vulnerability management concepts: CVE/CVSS, scanning, remediation workflow
• Familiarity with SIEM or log analysis on any platform (Splunk, Sentinel, Elastic, Chronicle)
• Cloud fundamentals, AWS preferred
• Any exposure to ICS/OT, SCADA, lab instrumentation, or robotics environments

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.