Lila Sciences
Staff IT Systems Engineer, Endpoints
$163K–$218K
Cambridge, MA USA +1 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 16, 2026
- Location
- Cambridge, MA USA
Alewife, Cambridge, MA - Experience
- Deep experience required; no number of years stated.
About the job
Own the architecture, automation, security, and operations roadmap for company-wide endpoint systems across employee, research, and lab environments.
What you'll do
- Set endpoint architecture, configuration, policy, observability, rollout, and remediation standards; drive configuration-as-code and zero-touch provisioning.
- Build automation and tooling, improve patch and vulnerability management, and integrate endpoint posture and device trust with Security.
- Mentor engineers, handle complex escalations, and lead cross-functional endpoint initiatives.
What they ask for
- Deep experience in IT systems, endpoint, infrastructure, or platform engineering, with staff-level technical ownership.
- Strong experience with modern MDM or UEM platforms and managing endpoint configuration through code, automation, version control, staged rollout, or CI/CD.
- Strong macOS and Windows systems knowledge; ability to build and maintain automation using Python, Bash, PowerShell, APIs, or similar tooling.
- Experience with AI-assisted engineering, security collaboration on endpoint initiatives, and mentoring engineers or leading cross-functional technical initiatives.
Nice to have
- Experience supporting scientific, research, lab, OT, or high-performance computing environments.
- Familiarity with Okta, SAML, SCIM, device trust, SASE, EDR, cloud access, AWS, GCP, or open-source endpoint tools.
Pay
$163,400 — $217,886 USD (base salary)
Tools
Jamf, Intune, Workspace ONE, Python, Bash, PowerShell, AWS, GCP
AI focus
Use AI-assisted engineering, LLM APIs, internal copilots, or agentic automation to reduce operational toil in IT, endpoint, infrastructure, or platform operations.
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