Lila Sciences
Senior / Engineer II, AI Lab Research Engineer
$148K–$240K
Cambridge, MA USA +2 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 6, 2025
- Location
- Cambridge, MA USA
San Francisco, CA USA
One Charles Park, Cambridge, MA - Education
- PhD or Masters in a quantitative discipline
About the job
Build AI agents and software workflows that autonomously perform scientific reasoning, generate executable lab-instrument steps, and evaluate progress on scientific tasks.
What you'll do
- Develop agentic AI systems for sequential decision-making and multi-step scientific reasoning.
- Build systems that convert natural-language intent into typed, executable lab-instrument steps.
- Create benchmarks, test suites, and telemetry to measure capability and reliability.
What they ask for
- PhD or Masters in a quantitative discipline, with a strong background in machine learning and one domain of science.
- Strong grasp of LLMs and agent architectures, including planning, tool use, structured function calling, and code generation.
- Proficiency in modern ML frameworks and experience implementing scalable solutions for complex tasks.
- Comfort collaborating across disciplines and interfacing with simulations and real lab systems.
Nice to have
- Experience building long-horizon agents or using RL for control/decision-making, including model-based or offline RL.
- Experience designing domain-specific benchmarks or evaluation harnesses, digital twins, or AI-for-science publications or open-source contributions.
Pay
$148,000 — $240,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX, LLMs, RL
AI focus
Develop agentic AI for scientific reasoning, lab workflow/code generation, and evaluation; bonus areas include long-horizon agents, reinforcement learning, and digital twins.
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