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Your hands-on expertise in cleanroom processing, with strengths in thin-film deposition, lithography, etching, and metrology, will contribute directly to Lila’s materials science programs focused on the predictive design of novel material families and functional thin-film systems.\nIn this role, you will design and build prototype test structures and devices that enable rapid and accurate assessment of material properties. Development of fabrication process flows may include non-standard approaches that shape how the platform builds and interrogates new material systems. The experimental outputs will feed directly into closed-loop discovery campaigns.\nYou will partner with materials scientists, device physicists, systems engineers, and machine learning scientists to develop and execute fabrication campaigns with high scientific rigor and velocity.\nWhat You'll Be Building\nDesign and fabricate prototype devices and test structures used to evaluate novel materials.\nDevelop, optimize, and troubleshoot thin-film deposition recipes across diverse material systems.\nExecute cleanroom processes, including lithography, wet/dry etching, and thin-film deposition.\nCharacterize films and devices using profilometry, ellipsometry, SEM, and electrical probing.\nIntegrate fabrication processes into automated and high-throughput workflows.\nTranslate experimental goals into manufacturable process steps with materials scientists and engineers.\nWhat You'll Need to Succeed\nBachelor’s degree in Materials Science, Electrical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Physics, or a closely related field; advanced degree (M.S. or Ph.D.) preferred.\n5+ years of hands-on cleanroom experience in research, development, or manufacturing.\nDeep expertise in thin-film deposition, including recipe development and troubleshooting.\nProficiency across photolithography, wet/dry etching, and thin-film deposition.\nHands-on experience with metrology and characterization tools as part of process development.\nTrack record implementing novel fabrication process flows when established recipes do not fit.\nBonus Points For\nExperience with epitaxial deposition techniques.\nExperience with device fabrication for electronic, photonic, MEMS, spintronic, or quantum applications.\nProficiency in lift-off patterning and process selection for device and material requirements.\nFamiliarity with high-throughput or combinatorial fabrication process integration.\nProficiency in Python for scientific data analysis.\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$108,000—$170,000 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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