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You will work on projects involving one of these areas: enabling AI agents to reason over and orchestrate simulations, developing ML methods to accelerate atomistic simulations, and leveraging agentic simulations for applications in materials discovery.\nWhat You'll Be Building\nContribute to projects involving one of these areas: AI agents for simulations, ML models for atomistic simulations, and in silico materials discovery.\nDevelop methods and workflows for in silico materials discovery that connect physics-based simulations, generative models, and agentic AI systems.\nBuild intelligent pipelines where AI agents can design, launch, interpret, and refine simulations autonomously.\nDesign new methods to accelerate simulations with ML-based surrogate models.\nCollaborate with computational scientists, machine learning experts, and platform engineers to integrate in silico discovery pipelines into Lila's broader scientific superintelligence ecosystem.\nWhat You'll Need to Succeed\nCurrently enrolled in an MS or PhD program in CS, Materials Science, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Physics, or a related field (exceptional BS candidates with research experience considered)\nProficiency in Python, deep learning frameworks and end-to-end workflow deployment\nEvidence of applied ML research work in physical sciences including method development, model training and evaluation, and sound code practices\nStrong communication and presentation skills, capable of conveying technical information in a clear and thorough manner\nEager to work with highly skilled and dynamic teams in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial, and technical setting\nBonus Points For\nPrior experience and publications in one or more of these areas: ML interatomic potential development, LLMs for materials science and chemistry, Generative models for materials, High-throughput computational materials discovery\nContributions to open-source simulation or ML infrastructure and software\nFamiliarity with materials science simulation codes and workflow orchestration frameworks\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. 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