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You will own the platform strategy for a fleet of distributed lab sites and lead the engineers who make new sites come online reliably and repeatably.\nLab Platform Engineering builds and supports the platforms and software that keep Lila's AI Science Factory™ running: bare metal clusters, cloud infrastructure, secure identity and secrets services, resilient storage, and the APIs and tooling that let scientists and engineers ship software to production. Every robot, instrument, and lab workflow depends on these systems.\nThis is a leadership role on a team being built now. You will grow the organization to 10 to 15 engineers, set multi-year technical direction, and partner with robotics, lab operations, research, and security leaders on what the platform needs to support next.\nWhat You'll Be Building\nBuild and lead a team of 10 to 15 engineers, including managers and tech leads. Hire, develop, and retain engineers at every level.\nSet multi-year technical vision and strategy for hybrid edge and cloud infrastructure across distributed lab sites.\nOwn platform roadmap and delivery, shipping on a predictable cadence against commitments made to partner teams.\nOwn fleet operations and reliability, including service levels, on-call, and incident response across sites.\nOwn infrastructure budget, capacity planning, and vendor relationships.\nPartner cross-functionally with robotics, lab operations, research, and security, and communicate platform strategy and tradeoffs to executives.\nRaise the engineering bar through standards, review practices, and technical thought leadership.\nWhat You'll Need to Succeed\n15+ years in software or infrastructure engineering, with 8+ years leading teams, including managing managers or tech leads, or equivalent practical experience.\nTrack record building and scaling a platform or infrastructure organization from a small team upward.\nDeep technical grounding in hybrid on-premises and cloud infrastructure, including Kubernetes operated at scale outside the public cloud.\nExperience operating production fleets against explicit reliability targets, with ownership of on-call and incident practice.\nOwnership of infrastructure budget, capacity planning, and vendor negotiation.\nProven cross-functional and executive partnership, including communicating technical tradeoffs to non-engineering leaders.\nDemonstrated ability to hire and develop senior and principal-level engineers.\nBonus Points For\nScientific domain: laboratory automation, robotics, or hardware-adjacent platforms; lab software for life sciences or materials science.\nDistributed and edge systems: multi-site operations, intermittently connected environments, over-the-air software rollout.\nSecurity and compliance: identity and secrets management across hybrid environments, operating in regulated or audited settings.\nPlatform practice: infrastructure-as-code, GitOps, developer experience as a product, AI-assisted engineering workflows adopted across a team.\nOrganizational: standing up a new function, integrating acquired or transferred teams, managing a team split across offices and remote.\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$232,000—$390,000 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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