# ML Research Scientist, Scientific Evaluations

Your Impact at LILA Lila is building a platform where AI and automation co-evolve to accelerate scientific discovery. Our AI Research team is looking to hire a ML Research Scientist to focus on building scientific problems and environments to evaluate frontier LLMs on. What You'll Be Building Design and prototype new evals and environments for science - creating high-quality evaluations, identifying environment failures, and patching model capability gaps. Invent new types of RL environments - explore creative ways to turn scientific workflows, simulators, and real-world tasks into training signal. Build end-to-end pipelines for synthetic environment generation - transforming raw assets (papers, codebases, lab protocols) into validated, versioned training environments at scale. Prototype and validate environment designs - from initial concept through reward shaping, data collection, and integration with the training loop. What You'll Need to Succeed Experience applying ML or computation to biology, chemistry, or material sciences. A strong track record of creating environments or evaluations for model training Experience building large, complex data pipelines for model training or

- **Id**: 4026871
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/lila-sciences-ml-research-scientist-scientific-evaluations>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States, London, United Kingdom, Cambridge, United States
- **Countries**: US, GB
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-10T15:37:39Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-10
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T16:51:36Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 2
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4652
- **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**: B
- **Score**: 84
- **Open postings**: 39
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.436
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 78
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 176000
- **Max**: 304000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 304000

## Technologies

- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Flyte** — Optional: yes
- **LLM** — Optional: yes
- **Pydantic** — Optional: yes
- **Ray** — Optional: yes
- **vLLM** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 2

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-10T17:15:24Z

## 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**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 1
- **Expected fill days**: 78
- **Reasons**: conf:0, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 304000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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