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This is a strategic, full-cycle role: you'll shape hiring plans with research leadership, build Lila's reputation in the AI research community, and go deep in high-signal technical channels to reach talent that isn't sitting on a job board.\nWhat You'll Be Building\nDevelop and execute strategic recruiting plans for AI/ML research and engineering roles, from hiring-manager intake through screen, interview loop management, offer strategy, and close.\nPartner with AI Research hiring managers and interview panels to translate team needs into sourcing strategy, candidate personas, and role calibration.\nBuild and sustain a high-trust network of ML researchers and applied scientists across subfields (LLM, RL, Generative AI) through consistent relationship-building, community presence, and non-traditional discovery loops (research publications, GitHub, conferences, open-source).\nPartner with leadership and cross-functional stakeholders to map long-term AI/ML talent strategy and balance hiring priorities across research teams.\nBuild and iterate on recruiting processes that maintain a high, consistent talent bar while actively removing bias from the hiring process.\nStrengthen Lila's employer brand within the ML research and scientific community - representing our mission, culture, and technical work to candidates with strong options elsewhere.\nStay current on sourcing techniques, interview innovation, and AI/ML talent-market trends; bring new approaches back to the team.\nMaintain operational rigor: pipeline hygiene, recruiting metrics (time-to-fill, slate quality, source efficacy), and clear communication with candidates and hiring teams.\nWhat You'll Need to Succeed\n5+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience supporting technical research teams, with a track record of recruiting AI/ML research talent specifically.\nStrong existing network in the ML research community (NeurIPS, ICML, top CS/ML programs).\nProven ability to attract passive candidates from leading academic institutions and frontier labs, and to scale a high-performing technical hiring function.\nStrong technical aptitude - comfortable understanding and evaluating ML/research qualifications alongside hiring teams.\nExcellent negotiation, communication, and stakeholder-management skills with senior technical leaders.\nComfortable operating with autonomy and juggling shifting priorities in a fast-moving environment.\nBonus Points For\nHands-on experience with agentic recruiting tools/workflows (automations, enrichment/triage helpers) to improve candidate discovery.\nExperience recruiting at a deep-tech or frontier AI research organization.\nInternational recruiting experience across multiple regions.\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$160,000—$215,000 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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