{"id":3006127,"url":"https://alion.io/job/lila-sciences-director-materials-aisf-program-lead","title":"Director, Materials AISF Program Lead","company":{"id":65163,"name":"Lila Sciences","domain":"lila.ai","url":"https://alion.io/company/lila-ai","size_band":"201-500","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Greenhouse","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":88,"open_postings":39,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.282,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":85,"computed_at":"2026-11-08T05:47:12Z"}},"role":"Energy","role_family":"Energy","seniority":"head","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Cambridge, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":197600,"max":284667,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":284667},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-08-06T14:16:53Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-16","last_verified_at":"2026-11-08T08:51:07Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":93,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":93},"description":"Your Impact at LILA\nWe are looking for a Program Lead to own strategy and execution for Lila’s Materials Science AISF program. This role defines how and when the program delivers against Product, Science, and AI priorities, then turns that strategy into clear charters, budgets, timelines, and execution plans.\nMaterials Science AISFs span vacuum synthesis, characterization, electrochemistry, nanoporous materials, and physics. The Program Lead will connect deep domain expertise, platform strategy, and cross-functional execution to expand the experimental systems that help AI learn materials science at scale.\nThis role reports to John Gregoire and partners closely with Product, AISF Engineering, Materials Experiment, Scientific Programs, and technical leadership. Success requires clear strategy, decisive execution, and the ability to align teams around complex, high-impact platform priorities.\nWhat You'll Be Building\nOwn the Materials Science AISF program strategy, charter, budget, timeline, and success criteria.\nTranslate Product, Science, and AI priorities into executable program plans.\nBuild the roadmap for expanding Materials Science AISF capabilities across synthesis, characterization, and closed-loop AI guidance.\nEvaluate proof-of-concept results from Scientific Programs and design pathways for platform integration.\nForm, align, and advise cross-functional project teams executing the Materials Science AISF strategy.\nResolve resourcing, prioritization, and execution risks in partnership with Product and portfolio leads.\nRepresent Materials Science AISF strategy, status, risks, and decisions in technical leadership reviews.\nWhat You'll Need to Succeed\nPhD or equivalent experience in materials science, condensed matter physics, chemistry, or a closely related field, with industry research experience.\nTrack record leading complex, multidisciplinary experimental programs.\nFamiliarity with Materials Science AISF domains such as vacuum synthesis, characterization, electrochemistry, or nanoporous systems.\nExperience defining and managing technical roadmaps with real resource, budget, and timeline constraints.\nStrong written and verbal communication, with the ability to translate technical depth into strategic clarity.\nExperience leading through influence across matrixed, cross-functional teams.\nBonus Points For\nExperience with automated or high-throughput experimental platforms, robotics, or lab automation.\nFamiliarity with AI/ML-driven experimental design, Bayesian optimization, or closed-loop materials discovery.\nExposure to atomistic simulation methods and their relationship to experimental programs.\nExperience in a fast-paced research environment such as a national lab, advanced materials startup, or deep-tech company.\nExperience working across shared resources and multiple concurrent programs.\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$197,600—$284,667 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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