# Research Scientist, Soft Matter Simulations

Your Impact at LILA Your role will involve applying soft matter physics and molecular simulation expertise to accelerate the discovery, optimization, and understanding of complex soft matter systems. You will use coarse-grained and atomistic modeling, mesoscale simulation, analytical theory, and agentic AI systems to investigate polymers, colloids, surfactants, gels, liquid crystals, and formulated fluid systems with direct relevance to commercial applications. You will work at the intersection of physics-based simulation, AI/ML, and autonomous scientific workflows. The focus is on using computational insight to identify promising formulations and material compositions, explain structure-property relationships, guide optimization campaigns, and help agents reason over simulation and experimental data in scientifically grounded ways. Desired simulation expertise covers atomistic and coarse-grained molecular dynamics, mesoscale approaches such as dissipative particle dynamics, Monte Carlo sampling, and analytical theory including self-consistent field theory, field theoretic simulation, and liquid state theory. This is a hands-on research role for someone who can connect deep soft ma

- **Id**: 4042034
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/lila-sciences-research-scientist-soft-matter-simulations>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Cambridge, United States, San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-10T21:45:30Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-10
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T03:16:25Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6421
- **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**: 176000
- **Max**: 304000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 304000

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **HPC** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **C++** — Optional: yes
- **Fortran** — Optional: yes
- **JAX** — Optional: yes
- **PyTorch** — Optional: yes
- **Rust** — Optional: yes

## Trust

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

## Requirements

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

### Education

- **Level**: master
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-10T22:30:23Z

## 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:1, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T04:59:53Z

## Pay

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

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