Lila Sciences
Scientist II/ Senior Scientist, BioML
$228K–$358K
San Francisco, CA USA +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 15, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, CA USA
San Francisco, CA - Education
- PhD in Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, Computational Genomics, Biostatistics, Machine Learning, or a related quantitative field, with research centered on biological data.
About the job
Build and evaluate systems for mechanistic biological reasoning, analyze biological data, and design experiments that ground and test those systems.
What you'll do
- Develop structured mechanistic reasoning workflows and evaluations, including outcome-verifiable benchmarks.
- Analyze high-dimensional biological data and build reproducible pipelines for quality control, annotation, and model-ready evidence.
- Design experimental campaigns, analyze results, and collaborate with experimental scientists, ML researchers, and engineers.
What they ask for
- PhD in Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, Computational Genomics, Biostatistics, Machine Learning, or a related quantitative field, with research centered on biological data.
- Fluent Python and substantial experience analyzing high-dimensional biological data in reproducible, version-controlled pipelines.
- Ability to reason mechanistically about biology, assays, and evidence supporting scientific claims.
- Ability to communicate methods, assumptions, results, and limitations to technical and interdisciplinary audiences.
Nice to have
- Experience in perturbation screens, single-cell omics, imaging-based proteomics, or functional genomics.
- Experience with lab-in-the-loop workflows, active learning, experiment selection, or evaluating language models or agents on scientific judgment tasks.
Pay
$228,000 — $358,000 USD base salary
Tools
Python
AI focus
Build and evaluate AI reasoning systems for mechanistic biology, including scientific judgment benchmarks and workflows that connect computational predictions with experimental decisions.
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