# Director/ Senior Director, Lab Platform Engineering

Your Impact at LILA Lila is hiring a Director of Lab Platform Engineering to lead the team that builds and operates the hybrid on-premises and cloud infrastructure behind our automated labs. 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. Lab 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. This 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. What You'll Be Building Build and lead a team of 10 to 15 engineers, including managers and tech leads. Hire, develop, and retain engineers at every level. Set multi-year technical vision and strategy for hybrid edge and cl

- **Id**: 4005607
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/lila-sciences-director-senior-director-lab-platform-engineering>
- **Role**: Leadership
- **Role family**: Leadership
- **Seniority**: head
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Cambridge, United States, San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 15
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-10T02:34:51Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-10
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T22:30:23Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5931
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity, Flexible time off, Parental leave
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Materials Science & Nanotechnology, Laboratory & Pharmaceutical Robotics, AI Research Labs, AI for Science

## Company

- **Id**: 65163
- **Name**: Lila Sciences
- **Domain**: lila.ai
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/lila-ai>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 85
- **Open postings**: 38
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.395
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 85
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 232000
- **Max**: 390000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 390000

## Technologies

- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **Platform Engineering** — Optional: no
- **GitOps** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 15
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-10T06:56:31Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 29; Filings 12m: 29

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 85
- **Reasons**: conf:0, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T23:09:20Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 390000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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