Software Engineer, Machine Learning Infrastructure

Lila Sciences

Lila Sciences

Software Engineering, Other Engineering
Cambridge, MA, USA
Posted on Aug 26, 2025

🚀 About Lila

Lila Sciences is the world’s first scientific superintelligence platform and autonomous lab for life, chemistry, and materials science. We are pioneering a new age of boundless discovery by building the capabilities to apply AI to every aspect of the scientific method. We are introducing scientific superintelligence to solve humankind's greatest challenges, enabling scientists to bring forth solutions in human health, climate, and sustainability at a pace and scale never experienced before. Learn more about this mission at www.lila.ai

If this sounds like an environment you’d love to work in, even if you only have some of the experience listed below, we encourage you to apply.

✨ Your Impact at Lila

We’re hiring a Senior Software Engineer to build robust infrastructure that powers Lila’s ML workflows and research tooling.

🛠️ What You’ll Be Building

  • CI/CD pipelines and integration tests for ML workflows.
  • Cross-repo orchestration and architect repository designs to follow consistent standards.
  • Support debugging, logging, and maintenance for Ray-based compute environments.
  • Data ingestion pipelines linking lab data to ML teams.

🧰 What You’ll Need to Succeed

  • Experience with large codebases and MLOps systems.
  • Strong Python and cloud/HPC skills.
  • Familiarity with orchestration frameworks (Ray, Argo, Airflow).

✨ Bonus Points For

  • Research engineering or scientific software experience.
  • Large-scale infra design or repo architecture.

🌈 We’re All In

Lila Sciences is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.

🤝 A Note to Agencies

Lila Sciences does not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than candidates. The submission of unsolicited resumes by recruitment or staffing agencies to Lila Sciences or its employees is strictly prohibited unless contacted directly by Lila Science’s internal Talent Acquisition team. Any resume submitted by an agency in the absence of a signed agreement will automatically become the property of Lila Sciences, and Lila Sciences will not owe any referral or other fees with respect thereto.