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Lila Sciences

Robot type
Industrial Automation
Location
CambridgeMassachusettsUSA
Job type
Software
Posted
Aug 10, 2026
Salary
$144,000–$240,000 a year
Full-time

Senior Software Engineer I/II, Back-end/Data, Robotics

Job description

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.

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Job requirements

  • 4–8 years of back-end engineering: production services in Python (FastAPI) at scale.
  • Data engineering: pipelines on a workflow orchestrator such as Flyte, Temporal, or similar.
  • Data modeling across stores: hands-on SQL (PostgreSQL), object storage (S3), and data lakehouse architectures.
  • Cloud-native delivery: a major cloud with containers, infrastructure as code, and CI/CD — ideally AWS EKS (Docker/ECR), Terraform, and GitHub Actions.
  • End-to-end ownership: taking services from design through delivery, reliability, and iteration.
  • Clear collaboration: communicating technical tradeoffs plainly with engineers, scientists, and business partners.

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