Lila Sciences
Senior Software Engineer I/II, Back-end/Data, Robotics
$144K–$240K
Cambridge, MA USA +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Aug 10, 2026
- Location
- Cambridge, MA USA
Alewife, Cambridge, MA - Experience
- 4–8 years of back-end engineering.
About the job
Build and operate back-end and data systems that schedule work across autonomous labs, support digital twins, and deliver trustworthy experimental data.
What you'll do
- Design scheduling services and durable workflows for experiments, instruments, and compute.
- Build digital-twin data layers, data pipelines, and governed data models for scientists and models.
- Deliver capacity-planning services and operate cloud services as the factory scales.
What they ask for
- 4–8 years of back-end engineering experience building production services in Python (FastAPI) at scale.
- Experience with data pipelines using a workflow orchestrator such as Flyte, Temporal, or similar.
- Hands-on SQL (PostgreSQL), object storage (S3), and data lakehouse architectures.
- Cloud-native delivery experience with containers, infrastructure as code, and CI/CD; end-to-end service ownership and clear collaboration.
Nice to have
- Experience in safety- or quality-critical industries, robotics, lab automation, LIMS, or manufacturing/MES.
- Exposure to scheduling and optimization, distributed compute, experiment tracking, model serving, or event-driven messaging.
Pay
$144,000 — $240,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Python, FastAPI, Flyte, Temporal, PostgreSQL, S3, AWS EKS, Terraform
AI focus
The role enables data for scientists and models and supports digital twins; it does not specify building AI models.
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