# Scientist II, Silicon Photonics

Your Impact at LILA Lila Sciences is seeking a Scientist II, Silicon Photonics to join the Materials Science team within the Autonomous Science Platform. This role builds the measurement, analysis, and data-quality foundation for novel electro-optic materials and the photonic devices built from them, turning material and device performance into trusted data for scientists and for the models that learn from it. You will own characterization across the full stack, from thin-film material properties through passive photonic structures to electro-optic modulators, at both chip and wafer level. That means defining what to measure, designing and standing up the test setups, and establishing the calibration and quality-control procedures that make results comparable across material variants, process conditions, and design iterations. This is hands-on work: you will assemble and debug optical and optoelectronic measurement setups, not just operate them. The role sits between materials, device design, fabrication, and test. You will interpret measured data in the context of material properties, process variation, and device physics, feed findings back into material and design decisions, and

- **Id**: 924416
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/lila-sciences-scientist-ii-silicon-photonics>
- **Role**: Semiconductors
- **Role family**: Semiconductors
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Cambridge, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: closed
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-15T00:40:18Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-16
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T14:52:48Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Closed at**: 2026-11-09T14:52:48Z
- **Days open**: 55
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 7513
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity, Flexible time off, Parental leave
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Optical Communications, Materials Science & Nanotechnology, Laboratory & Pharmaceutical Robotics, AI Research Labs

## 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**: 37
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.432
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 76
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-15T07:52:55Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 128000
- **Max**: 170000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 170000

## Technologies

- **MATLAB** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 55

## Requirements

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

### Education

- **Level**: phd
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-15T05:18:50Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-11-09T14:52:48Z

## 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

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 170000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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