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This role works on deployed automation systems, including integrated robotics, PLCs, SCADA, instrumentation, and connected equipment.\nYou will troubleshoot multi-disciplinary issues, maintain and improve controls infrastructure, and support upgrades that keep laboratory workflows running reliably. The work spans incident response, preventive maintenance, root cause analysis, vendor software integration, documentation, and system lifecycle management.\nThis is an execution-focused engineering role for someone who enjoys hands-on problem solving in complex lab automation environments. Success means improving uptime, reducing recurring faults, and helping automation systems become safer, more reliable, and easier to maintain over time.\nWhat You'll Be Building\nMaintain and improve deployed PLC, SCADA, and robotics control systems.\nTroubleshoot incidents across controls, robotics, instrumentation, networking, and integrated equipment.\nPerform root cause analysis and implement fixes that reduce recurring faults.\nUpdate wrappers connecting third-party equipment and vendor software to controls systems.\nSustain PLC-based safety systems for equipment, robotics, and conveyance workflows.\nPlan preventive maintenance, patching, backups, upgrades, and component lifecycle work.\nKeep P&IDs, wiring schematics, control narratives, and IO lists current.\nTrack uptime, MTBF, MTTR, and recurring faults to guide reliability improvements.\nWhat You'll Need to Succeed\n2 to 5+ years supporting, maintaining, or troubleshooting automated control systems.\nHands-on experience with PLCs, HMIs, SCADA, and related automation platforms.\nExperience with OT networking, including routing, security groups, VPNs, or similar systems.\nExperience using Git or equivalent version control for engineering artifacts.\nAbility to create and maintain engineering documents using AutoCAD, SolidWorks Electrical, or similar tools.\nExperience with robotics integration, structured text, or related automation programming.\nStrong troubleshooting skills across hardware, software, networking, and integrated equipment.\nBonus Points For\nIgnition experience or Ignition Gold Certification.\nStructured text, TwinCAT, Python, C++, or similar programming experience.\nExperience with OPC-UA, MQTT, REST APIs, or related communication protocols.\nFamiliarity with safety classifications such as SIL or PL.\nExperience with reliability methods such as FMEA, CAPA, RCM, or preventive maintenance strategy.\nCompensation\nWe offer competitive base compensation with bonus potential and generous early-stage equity. Your final offer will reflect your background, expertise, and expected impact.\nU.S. Benefits. Full-time U.S. employees receive a comprehensive benefits program including medical, dental, and vision coverage; employer-paid life and disability insurance; flexible time off with generous company wide holidays; paid parental leave; an educational assistance program; commuter benefits, including bike share memberships for office based employees; and a company subsidized lunch program.\nInternational Benefits. Full-time employees outside the U.S. receive a comprehensive benefits program tailored to their region. USD salary ranges apply only to U.S.-based positions; international salaries are set to local market.\nExpected Base Salary Range\n$93,600—$138,600 USD\nAbout LILA\nLila Sciences is building Scientific Superintelligence™ to solve humankind's greatest challenges. We believe science is the most inspiring frontier for AI. Rather than hard-coding expert knowledge into tools, LILA builds systems that can learn for themselves.\nLILA combines advanced AI models with proprietary AI Science Factory™ instruments into an operating system for science that executes the entire scientific method autonomously, accelerating discovery at unprecedented speed, scale, and impact across medicine, materials, and energy. Learn more at www.lila.ai.\nGuided by our core values of truth, trust, curiosity, grit, and velocity, we move with startup speed while tackling problems of historic importance. If this sounds like an environment you'd love to work in, even if you don't meet every qualification listed above, we encourage you to apply.\nWe’re All In\nLila 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.\nInformation you provide during your application process will be handled in accordance with our Candidate Privacy Policy.\nA Note to Agencies\nLila 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. 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