# Senior Scientist, Analytical Chemistry

Your Impact at LILA The Senior Scientist, Analytical Chemistry will develop and deploy advanced analytical and characterization strategies to support Discovery Chemistry efforts across Lila’s platform, with a focus on enabling the rapid design, synthesis, screening, and optimization of small molecules and related molecular matter. This scientist will play a key role in generating high-quality, information-rich experimental data that informs chemistry decisions and accelerates platform learning. Working closely with Discovery Chemistry, automation, AI/computational, and screening teams, this role will establish and scale multimodal characterization workflows that go beyond traditional analytical chemistry approaches. The Senior Scientist will help build an integrated analytical capability spanning compound characterization, reaction monitoring, molecular profiling, and high-throughput data generation to support fast and iterative design-make-test-analyze cycles. This role will be critical to shaping Lila’s next-generation discovery engine by combining deep expertise in analytical chemistry with high-throughput experimentation, multimodal data generation, AI-enabled workflows. What Y

- **Id**: 3530905
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/lila-sciences-senior-scientist-analytical-chemistry>
- **Role**: Biotech
- **Role family**: Biotech
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Cambridge, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-03-25T18:43:20Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-30
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-05T15:35:26Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 225
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 8248
- **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**: 41
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.415
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 78
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-05T05:54:30Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 148000
- **Max**: 198000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 198000

## Technologies

- **Chromatography** — Optional: no
- **Multimodal AI** — Optional: no
- **LIMS** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: stale
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: stale
- **Days open**: 224

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-10-30T16:00:15Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 18
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.647
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 224
- **Expected fill days**: 78
- **Reasons**: conf:0, velocity, win:tail, crowd:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-05T05:54:30Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 198000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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