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In Robotics, you'll own core services scientists, operators, and engineers rely on daily - the ones that decide how efficiently our robots run and how much our scientists trust their data.\nWhat You'll Be Building\nDesign scheduling systems: allocate experiments, instruments, and compute across autonomous labs, modeling long-running jobs as durable Temporal workflows.\nModel digital twins: stand up the simulation/digital-twin data layer so teams predict factory behavior before committing resources.\nOwn technical data management: build the Flyte pipelines, S3 lakehouse, and PostgreSQL models that turn instrument output into governed, trustworthy data.\nEnable data science: ship batch and event-driven pipelines that put clean data in the hands of scientists and models.\nDeliver capacity planning: create customer-facing services that help teams forecast factory capacity.\nOperate for scale: run services on AWS EKS with Docker/ECR, Terraform, and GitHub Actions, reliable as the factory grows.\nWhat You'll Need to Succeed\n 4-8 years of back-end engineering: production services in Python (FastAPI) at scale.\nData engineering: pipelines on a workflow orchestrator such as Flyte, Temporal, or similar.\n Data modeling across stores: hands-on SQL (PostgreSQL), object storage (S3), and data lakehouse architectures.\n Cloud-native delivery: a major cloud with containers, infrastructure as code, and CI/CD - ideally AWS EKS (Docker/ECR), Terraform, and GitHub Actions.\nEnd-to-end ownership: taking services from design through delivery, reliability, and iteration.\nClear collaboration: communicating technical tradeoffs plainly with engineers, scientists, and business partners.\nBonus Points For\nSystems engineering in regulated industries: systems-thinking rigor in safety- or quality-critical settings - aerospace, manufacturing, or healthcare/life sciences. Exposure to 21 CFR Part 11, ALCOA+, GAMP 5 / FDA CSA, or ISA-95 a plus.\nDomain exposure: robotics, lab automation, LIMS, or manufacturing/MES environments.\nScheduling & optimization: job scheduling, resource allocation, or constraint/optimization problems.\n Data-science enablement: distributed compute (Ray), experiment tracking (Weights & Biases), or model serving.\nEvent-driven messaging: NATS, MQTT, or similar pub/sub for high-volume telemetry.\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$144,000—$240,000 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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