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It’s a core part of Lila's mission to build Scientific Superintelligence and solve some of humanity’s most important challenges. As a Machine Learning Engineer, you’ll be the bridge between research and production. You’ll take models and agentic workflows built by our scientists and ML researchers and turn them into reliable, scalable systems that run on our platform every day. What matters most is strong software engineering and real experience shipping ML systems to production. A scientific background is a plus, but curiosity and a passion for discovery are what will make you thrive here.\nWhat You'll Be Building\nOwn models and agentic workflows end to end, from research code to a deployed, monitored service.\nBuild the integration layer that lets AI agents reliably call models, tools, simulations, and data services in production.\nMake sure models train correctly and that models and agents run efficiently, including profiling memory and compute, catching issues early, and keeping resource usage in check as workloads grow.\nDesign and maintain production AI/ML pipelines (data ingestion, training, evaluation, deployment, monitoring), with testing, observability, CI/CD, and automated evaluations built in so releases are safe and results are trustworthy.\nPartner with domain scientists, ML researchers, and platform engineers, and help shape the architecture of our AI/ML platform, coding standards, and engineering best practices.\nWhat You’ll Need to Succeed\nBS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related quantitative field, or equivalent industry experience.\nStrong Python software engineering fundamentals (testing, packaging, typing) and experience with machine learning frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, Hugging Face).\nExperience deploying AI/ML services in cloud-based infrastructure (e.g., FastAPI, containers, orchestration, databases).\nHands-on experience bringing models to production (e.g., deep learning models, LLMs, multimodal models, or RAG), with strong debugging, profiling, and optimization skills.\nClear communication and collaboration in cross-functional settings.\nBonus Points For\nContributions to open-source ML or scientific software.\nExperience or strong interest in building with AI agents (e.g., tool calling, multi-step workflows).\nExperience with workflow orchestration, data provenance, or large-scale compute environments.\nExposure to scientific domains (materials, chemistry, or physics) and their data formats, simulations, or benchmarks.\nPerformance and memory optimization for training or inference (e.g., mixed precision, distributed training, GPU profiling, efficient model serving).\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$180,000—$298,000 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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